A Bearded Hipster Parent Watches – Michael Rerick

From: the collection Moss

a bearded hipster parent watches

a child play with park sticks

with purpose

        fragments

under a fir tree entertain drunk teenagers

they think will survive into adulthood

jogging the mountain

a couple smiles

bouncing vows

to walk grass with a dog

invites a penetrable radius

of anonymity

    purposeless afternoons

ponder bees and honey clover

to fulfill summer citizenship

Michael Rerick lives and teaches in Portland, OR. Work recently appears or is forthcoming at Angel City Review, Porridge Magazine, and Potluck Magazine. He is also the author of In Ways Impossible to Fold, morefrom, The Kingdom of Blizzards, The Switch Yards, and X-Ray.