Saving mother, poem #3 (Cento group)

a cento poem study group, (Read Write Poem Challenge #3) inspired by the cento poems of Li-Young Lee cento poem group index Saving mother Maybe this time I’ll rescue my mother. Pearl Harbor will just be a sleepy port. Nobody came & nobody went. Nothing lost & no wedding bells. We’ll listen to corn in [...]

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Pocket guide

P o c k e t g u i d e i. Small steps. You know, those at both ends of the coin. She stands waving a few steps outside her kitchen door. Vigilant. Woven into that basket named grandmother. Some voice of me these decades later still resists saying the perfect words, lest in [...]

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Dunne Avenue incomplete

 read write prompt #100  turning dreams into poetry by bruce covey   Dunne Avenue incomplete   The house arrived about noon.  Just down the street. South, then West where the sun would pinhole horizon’s thread.   Roses and green, space enough in between for a child to scramble. Flitting.  Hiding.  Other children almost there, but not [...]

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Grandmother’s thumbs

For Janet   Grandmother’s thumbs   Redeemer of a two-toed cat.  Kitten so slight so lost, would have starved except she dared him kernel by kernel of corn out from behind a leaf, into her home, into bright hands, welcome gaze.   A little red wagon, you know the kind, that I spied short before [...]

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