Poem Category: Miscellaneous

kitchen calendar
our coloured-in birthdays
ticked off.

the scarecrow turns
on the horizon
a sliver of the moon.

geese in the clouds
how effortless to leave
our summer’s end.

first light
the ebb fondling
a wave at a time.

painting it morning
snow falls behind
the curtain lace.

raked leaves
daddy’s smoke
following me.

dentist rooms
watching sunlight
fill the chairs.

stiletto heels
no escaping
in the tunnel.

Beware jelly-fish
we know you quietly hunt us
with clear poisoned barbs.

Sepia photographs
each boy’s war comes
with a different pose.