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Glenn Currier May 2022
There’s a concert in my back yard
solos and duets all day
a circus with acrobatics
clowns painted with reds, blues and browns
just feet from my perch
here as I peck on the  keys
the stars fly in
then flit away with ease
as if to tell me:
you can’t hold me long
with your seeds and your eyes
we are free to dive the skies.
With gratitude to John Wiley and his poem, “Kookaburra” - https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4547160/kookaburra/  - the inspiration for this poem.
Whit Howland Jul 2019
A curt goodbye
no good luck

just hard stares
and harder bargains

78 degrees today sun
cloudless

in our neighborhood
lawns freshly fertilized
cut
and green like dollar bills

walls stripped bare
now cold

papers shredded

family photos
trophies

some silver some
gold

all tucked
snug
in banker's boxes

whit howland © 2019
Whit Howland Jul 2019
Six of us crowded
on those
splintered steps

general store
Bunker Hill Illinois

my hand unintentionally
on the thigh of the girl
to the right

she took a took a number
long ago

and the store

burned down in
one of many decades
I intentionally missed

whit howland © 2019

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