Symmetry
This form is called a Mirror Poem by Joan Bransfield Graham, from whom I learned it in the early ’90s, or a Reverso Poem by Marilyn Singer.
I Like That Night Follows Day
What if there was never night
if it was always light…and light?
Cleaning Out
this big shirt
used to fit
but today I swim around in it—
out go all my give-away clothes …
Bongo
With bongo, blanket and Panama hat,
I went to a special drum store.
There were drums and drums and drums and some
I’d never seen before.
Cat Act
The scruffy house cat
aches to fly–
she dreams all day of
wings and sky!
World Wide Wag
… if your big goofy paws
were seen racing on air …
Says the Seagull
Who are these people on my pier?
I sail above them, then fly near.
Listening
This photo has so many possibilities!
Bussssssssssss
Brakessssshisssssss
wheelsssssssssqueal
busssssssssssssssss
sssssssssssssto-ops.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
up dusty red Canyon Road
in and out of art galleries
ducking out of the heat …