The Archer's March

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  • To Don and Vincent Both
  • Life's Not a Race
  • True Friendship is Gold
  • Such a Cost
  • Therefore I Write
  • Suicide is Painless?
  • Fear Alone
  • You're Not Alone
  • Despair's a Sin
  • Let go, Let God
  • Hidden
  • Mathematical Virtue
  • Stuck in the Soup
  • De Leon's Dream
  • Echoes
  • In His Hand
  • Revolve, Evolve and Grow
  • Appreciation
  • The Summit
  • From the Jaws of Defeat
  • If Not First Myself
  • She Moves Me
  • Never Really Dark
  • To Ignore Fear and Dobt
  • Rise Above & Be the Light
  • Strive to Rebuild
  • I Really Don't Know
  • Let It Go
  • Goodness Never Marred
  • Despair Not
  • Defensores Libertatis
  • Spring
  • A Punic Picture
  • February Stroll
  • Ignore the Dark
  • Resolution
  • Unresolved
  • Va Tutto Bene?
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • To Thine Ownself...
  • Doubt Kills All
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    • Home
    • About
    • The Sonnet
    • Intertextuality
    • I've Heard
    • I'll Sleep in Peace
    • Where I Belong
    • Daily Rendezvous
    • Eclipsed By You
    • To Don and Vincent Both
    • Life's Not a Race
    • True Friendship is Gold
    • Such a Cost
    • Therefore I Write
    • Suicide is Painless?
    • Fear Alone
    • You're Not Alone
    • Despair's a Sin
    • Let go, Let God
    • Hidden
    • Mathematical Virtue
    • Stuck in the Soup
    • De Leon's Dream
    • Echoes
    • In His Hand
    • Revolve, Evolve and Grow
    • Appreciation
    • The Summit
    • From the Jaws of Defeat
    • If Not First Myself
    • She Moves Me
    • Never Really Dark
    • To Ignore Fear and Dobt
    • Rise Above & Be the Light
    • Strive to Rebuild
    • I Really Don't Know
    • Let It Go
    • Goodness Never Marred
    • Despair Not
    • Defensores Libertatis
    • Spring
    • A Punic Picture
    • February Stroll
    • Ignore the Dark
    • Resolution
    • Unresolved
    • Va Tutto Bene?
    • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    • To Thine Ownself...
    • Doubt Kills All

The Archer's March

The Archer's MarchThe Archer's MarchThe Archer's March
  • Home
  • About
  • The Sonnet
  • Intertextuality
  • I've Heard
  • I'll Sleep in Peace
  • Where I Belong
  • Daily Rendezvous
  • Eclipsed By You
  • To Don and Vincent Both
  • Life's Not a Race
  • True Friendship is Gold
  • Such a Cost
  • Therefore I Write
  • Suicide is Painless?
  • Fear Alone
  • You're Not Alone
  • Despair's a Sin
  • Let go, Let God
  • Hidden
  • Mathematical Virtue
  • Stuck in the Soup
  • De Leon's Dream
  • Echoes
  • In His Hand
  • Revolve, Evolve and Grow
  • Appreciation
  • The Summit
  • From the Jaws of Defeat
  • If Not First Myself
  • She Moves Me
  • Never Really Dark
  • To Ignore Fear and Dobt
  • Rise Above & Be the Light
  • Strive to Rebuild
  • I Really Don't Know
  • Let It Go
  • Goodness Never Marred
  • Despair Not
  • Defensores Libertatis
  • Spring
  • A Punic Picture
  • February Stroll
  • Ignore the Dark
  • Resolution
  • Unresolved
  • Va Tutto Bene?
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • To Thine Ownself...
  • Doubt Kills All

Stuck in the Soup

The golden autumn leaves are yet far off,

With breezes brisk and ev'ning's onset quick.

For now the stifling summer sweat does stick

With real discomfort, slogging through a trough.

The hum of air conditioner is sweet

Yet where I'm working it does not exist

Nor in my car, it seems Fate has me dissed.

For all intents and purposes, I'm beat.


Yet end of day comes, with its Sun's retreat.

Humidity insists it will persist.

Ignoring our admissions of defeat,

The weather laughs, it's victory complete.

Tomorrow's worse, the onslaught won't desist,

For six more days this cycle will repeat.


Frank Garnick 


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