POEM: "Until I Come to Rest"

Poet Joseph Nicks Liberato edited by Dhr. Seven and Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

UNTIL I COME TO REST

with time left to labor

happily hammering away

at this amorphous mound

of long-unfinished work

until i come to rest i wonder how much of this

matters to anyone but me

some of the time left i wander

from highway to hilltop

from shadows to shore

just trying to take it all in

until i come to rest i wonder how so much

of it still escapes me

some of the time left i slumber

at least until my conscience intervenes

and drags me from my dreamlessness

back up to the day's unrest

until i come to rest i wonder why

i even sleep at all

some of the time left i sit here

on the edge of the night and bed

with the same old silence seeping through

the numbness of all this new improved noise

until i come to rest i wonder where it is

everyone's gotten off to...

Tales From the Otherground

Poetry by Joseph Nicks (amazon.com)

The 102 titles in Tales From the Otherground: 30 Years Tending the Wordrows of Elsewhen represent about 10% of the author's wordwork for the three decades spanning 1983-2013.

Some recurring themes are: working, studying, hoping, thinking, walking, remembering, doubting, more thinking, driving, regretting, resolving, thinking again, leaving, loneliness, returning, and thinking some more. If you appreciate antiquated language... More