Distractions

“Life is Good” by Carmen Guedez

with cold breath of death
on the back of the neck
retreat into memoried
warmth of the womb

float on thoughts of an
unsteady soft newborn foal
of first opening buds at
an early spring bloom

of the smile that turned
callow boy into man
of the swoon to the surf
synced to beats of the heart

all the sweetness of life
in distraction from fear
to resolve for alacrity
gracefully poised to move on

Distraction

False Front Building by Peter B Pearman

strawman as strongman

a false-front illusion

for scaring the world

to distract it from noticing

how much in truth

it scares hell out of him