Produced by Dennis Camire

This week’s poem is by Tom Fallon, whose recent book of poems, “NOW,” presents his unique literary direction among Maine writers. He lives in southwestern Maine.

Off the road

By Tom Fallon

off

the road,

into tall grasses,

wild bushes, ferns

green, dripping

rainwater globules

scooching

I am surrounded

by green leaves, my head

equal to wild green

bushes

tall grasses and ferns,

pristine water globules

quivering on green leaves

equal to my self

I lay down

in wild green bushes,

tall grasses, ferns green,

water globules

splittering down on

my face

I am

wet and laughing

lying

in wild green bushes,

tall grasses, ferns

green, I am wet

and laughing

I am alive!

Dennis Camire can be reached at dcamire@cmcc.edu