losing your partner after 60 years
loving your partner for only 30
but so finely you can no longer
tell which days were which
and must mourn as if
for every one
Category Archives: Poems
belt
is the belt back in fashion?
it joins
connects
uplifts midrifts
takes up the slacks
or so
these days we’re told
belts bring great gains to all
yet a belt once it’s fashioned
can cinch
squeeze in
constrict the strips
transect the tracts
you must recall
some other ends to which
stiff old school belts were taken
you’ve heard the tale, of the sorry young soul
fallen heedlessly, hauled up to safety
by kind stranger’s belt, held out in charity
for years to follow, the rescue celebrated
the hero lauded, the great grand saviour
the other unnamed, forgotten lost in the plot
i’m just saying
belts comes with their buckle
Turnaround
Captain Oliver broke the news last night
unfriendly winds and currents gather in the drake
wait upon explorer’s parting wake
it’s time, too soon, for turn-abouting
home a-heading, ceding our southing
antipodal 2011 