Fingertips by Stephen Jarrell Williams

Simplicity is an illusion
just as words don't have enough blood
taking me down a low road
with summer heat on my sunburned back

remembering a poet from twenty years ago
quitting at his peak
whispering he was tired of writing
the same old words in reset sentences

recalling his familiar name
probably sick of his aliases
changing his clothes and shoes
to a long-haired hippie barefoot

swollen steps
into the ocean in Laguna Beach
polluted waves into the deep sand
outstretched fingertips to underwater graves.






Stephen Jarrell Williams loves to write in the middle of the night. His poetry and art can be found here and there. He's @papapoet on Twitter X.