Five Recent Poems

Here are five poems, among those I’ve written over the last few months.

Redwoods, looking up. via VisualHunt

Never Read It

They never read
Warts and Peas
They haven’t started
The Old Man and the Flea
Or The Portrait of a Used Car Thief
As a Middle-Aged Man
Haven’t picked up
One Flew Under an Ostrich
Never cracked open
The Found and the Curried
Modest Literary Expectations
The warnings of the future
Fahrenheit 154
Catch 21 in 1983
They never Told it On the Mountain
Beloved words left unbinged
By Invisible Men and Native Sons and a Little Woman.

OK, Then

Ok, then
Chased by three four year-olds
At noon, circling the playground
Until breath is short
Ok, then
The two year-old in my arms
Reminds me how time has slipped by
Ok, then
Groceries done
Organize pantry after lunch
Ok, then
Throw out bag of oats
Expired 2015
Ok, then
Sit down and relax
Ok, then
Walk dogs before dinner
Ok, then
Body wants more sleep
Ok, then
Bedtime story to tall girl growing
Ok, then…