Converse & Converge

By Jan Wiezorek

Lines converse in speech & converge 
in art while walking a trail of musky 
green humidity. Heat arouses your 
vision toward a focal point like a man 
sitting on his riding mower, buzzing 
weeds along the path, & you sense 
how shape changes in you, seeing 
him first upright, then downcast, 
as if taking a break, or, is he the man 
on the yellow Vespa, far ahead, pausing, 
reading texts, out of gas, fading into 
a jade blur, a summer mirage? I see 
his sweet branches now, wholly of leaves, 
addressing the path I have conversed w/ 
& converged w/ beyond any intention.

Jan Wiezorek writes and paints in southwestern Michigan. The London Magazine, Abstract Magazine, Minetta Review, and The Orchards Poetry Journal, among others, have published his poems. He taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and wrote the ebook Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (Scholastic, 2011).