New Series – Mercury Transit

I started a new series of poems called Mercury Transit.  The poems explore the time after the end “death.”  Each poem is written  on a day using the words I’ve chosen for that day in my Storeyean poem.  Here is the poem for today No. 6

Prep For Living / March 12 / 2024

Archive:This town looks like space prep – Hipster style.Buildings marked – same below as aboveWalking with a crowd zapped to forget,what space idealist watches from dusty windows &cracked concrete? by Emmy Horstkamp 12/3/2024

Talky Talk March 11 / 2024

It’s not funny. They watch and talk and feel like they’ve lived life while watching someone through a camera.Sitting still, they wait on foggy Monday mornings as the skies inspire the mallard to nest on the railroad rails.by Emmy Horstkamp 11/3/2024

March 7 / 2024

Alone.Morning alarm, ringing twice.Mist lingers on Thursday.Miss the trains on timeother train suggested.Ticket freedom – choose.

Take A Chance / March 4 / 2024

Out in the crowd, look, take a chance, go.Moments passing, life alarms and black birds overhead.A Mist rising, doors closing, sun beams relaying,monday started.Evaporating with morning, spring arrives,Year’s week nine.by Emmy Horstkamp 4/3/2024

February 26 / 2024

Next stop on the route,Sky Blue – Black and Gray,Train slowing to a stop.by Emmy Horstkamp, commuter February 26, 2024

February 13 / 2024

Moving forward, negotiating unhindered past the zone.Impressions of breaking day – glinting the length of a passing train.Time town jolting life beyond level 2. Unflinching – matter of a fact.Determined changeless. People mechanical indifferent discharged.by Emmy Horstkamp 13/2/2024

Take Note / January 28 / 2024

Consequences – take note – minutes till yesterday arrives.Today is significant not a now and then.Being here, now, for a second, is *instant*. by Emmy Horstkamp 27/1/2024 Yesterday I slept early in the evening and then went to work to see if I would write more. I did not. So my best writing time is from four

Saturday Sun / January 27 / 2024

Easy views filling the morning,between east and south somewhere – eyeblinking.Reach for today telling old willow phrases in tempered tones.By Emmy Horstkamp 27/1/2024

MoonRising / January 26 / 2024

Moonrising past fivethe day’s window looking clearwatching people stroll.by Emmy Horstkamp (1210 after deluge)