reshuffle

(First published in the Facebook group Poets All Call on July 18, 2023)

reshuffle

any card
discarded
makes the deck
defective.

even the three of cluster
and the seven of love
may fill a sequence
or buttress a structure.

now if you think
you have a bad hand
because your foot of jewels
or your prince of stems
tingles with numbness now,
nay. the tingling is your informant
of valuable intel. you now know
the game is changing
and if you dig deeper
you discern that cards the world over
may be added to your deck
if you but claim them
and make them your own.

there are more than four suits
to pursue, higher numbers than thirteen
in the sequence.
try the bus of possibility
or the bus of tranquility
or the hot tea of bloom
or the wildebeest (lighthearted
but no joker).

searches are easy now.
wish well.

this joker wishes you
the four of fulfillment.