That Which Has Not Changed
By Lewton Thomas Jones
On our 2020 pandemic viral reboot
A year moved like flagella in a butcher’s sink
days incubated into 2021
June one we convened the backyard
gazing @ my douglas fir
lifted vertical in sight sense and sound
on a pillow gazing frenetic heat
don’t need to book shows from half wits
anymore
time has evened the score
I am adrift- fueled by memories of -what if
the wind did not change it’s surreal touch
we are still vexed by digital logarithms
limbs, leaves flit to sol’s silage rapture
We will not join the matrix !
nor deny what comes next~
the only thing you can count on is change -they say
taxes death and trouble did not go away
the world must not have changed
the taggers made it worse for this homeless palindrome age
the world is still- cold…. motherfuckers on parade.
Lewton Jones: I was named after a Gregory Peck movie called Duel In The Sun. My folks liked the name of Peck's character in the film- Lewton. I remember in elementary school always wondering why we didn't talk about the world's beauty. My father lost all his songs and poems in the Vanport Flood. I guess I was here to reclaim his Welsh/Scottish muse. I tolerated the epic poems like Milton, Spenser and Tennyson in college. My friend Mark Whelan from Boston reminded me in my early 20's that I was a poet. It was through our drinking and recitations in the late night I understood my purpose. I took undergraduate and graduate poetry in college. It was poets like Jim Morrison, Dylan Thomas and Shelley who inspired me see poetry as the true language of being.