Jeffery Beam

Credo

Now, when I talk 
it is not just to say 
this or that.
But it is to say 
what is between.

Over there,
under the sycamore, runs 
the argumentative 
periwinkle.
The blue eye 
of southern spring.

Over there, the 
whistle of chickadee 
and blue
bird.

Here swings 
the rightful cadence 
of the blues.
The melancholic 
swarm of words, 
thick with dribble, and 
slang.

To my own self 
be true.

To say what is 
between:
the periwinkle, 
the chickadee.