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Aimless

Aimless between
Dropping out
Of art school
And absolutely no
Friggin’ money
For Kenyon
I moved in with
Television and doting
Grandma in flowered
Wallpapered rooms
Sat on her porch
Back and forth
On the glider
That Grandpa and I
Hauled home
From the auction
And for hours
Watched a robin’s trip
From yard to nest
Feeding her chicks
Delicious worms
And that was enough
Until ambition
Set in again

—
David Sapp, writer and artist, lives along the southern shore of Lake Erie in North America. A Pushcart nominee, he was awarded Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants for poetry and art. His publications include articles in the Journal of Creative Behavior; the chapbooks Solitary Nature, Cardboard Pleasure, and Two Buddha; the novel Flying Over Erie; a book of poems and drawings titled Drawing Nirvana; and two books of poetry and prose: Acquaintances and The Origin of Affection (the latter the winner of the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award).

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