Whit Howland

Whit Howland Dec 2024

Christmas Day

Green red white
and blue big bulbed

Christmas lights
on a fake tree

it stopped being real
ages ago

Imagism for Christmas

Whit Howland Dec 2024

WCW

A concrete
melted

and a shattered coke bottle
with glass scattered

across the floor

Imagisim

Whit Howland Dec 2024

Garden Gnome

Red hat
pulled over the eyes

homespun clothes
and a white wavy beard

and every day as I walk by
I ask you

what's the good word

thinking someday
you will speak

and tell me how to find
the door

Whit Howland Dec 2024

Tapestry

You and I
with so much history
no

hyperbole

that hangs on us
like bad-fitting clothes
and it's all so

complicated

An abstract word painting

Whit Howland Nov 2024

Bandage

Gauze
or some tape

to cover a scrape
or scratch

that we tell ourselves
is only a temporary solution

but then
ends up another

permanent accessory
to our makeshift lives

Whit Howland Nov 2024

***** Dishes

Water drips on them
like Chinese Water Torture

as a film of food slime
coats the ceramic

and you have to ask yourself
one question

was it worth it

Whit Howland Nov 2024

Pulp Novels On A Shelf

Tonight
the sky is strewn with stars

like diamonds
that have long stopped twinkling

and now

cut