Monday, January 19, 2026

Dream of Jumpy


 dream on jumpy 

johnclarestokes 


Does it not seem a 

Futile thing to wake

The sleeping man?

Let him dream awhile

Yet

Lost in his boyhood 

Stepping 

Down to the dark 

Riverbank 

Lapping as a dog

where he drank

Swinging upon the

Scuppernong vines

Higher in the canopy 

He climbs

Mamma called in vain

But jumpy never came

Bottle and boots 

Found abandoned

Is the child now a man?

Between a splashing 

and a slow drifting

Down the winding

Sopchoppy

We will never know.

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