2 poems

by Bo Rahm

the sinking ship

They are gentlemen

Top hats skin tight

Reservoir tipped.

The ocean plots to

Be filled and won’t

Stop until fully satisfied.

All the men in slobbering saucer eyed amazement

Take off their hats

Before jumping in.

looking at my niece’s painting

It is

The way a leaf is...

The way Jupiter is...

Everything has been said before,

Frightfully before. She says,

“All the colors of a clown

Are all the colors of the universe.”

And that is

It.

Bo Rahm’s favorite Poets include Theodore Roethke, Frank O’Hara, and Japanese Haiku poets. Bo has earned a bachelor’s degree in creative writing. He is the latest bloomer in any group of people he finds himself in.