“Sticks”
Summer sticks carry more weight.
They beat off the nearing Fall.
In the hands of my children,
sticks are swords, wands, guns, and marshmallow roasters.
Dry and brittle, sometimes lively and unable to be snapped.
Sticks adorn the paths of lazy summer.
Sometimes floating in a stuttering stream,
or left behind by another Quixotic Kid.
Endless days wearing soles down, and slicing the air with a ashen pole.
Poking dead squirrel carcasses,
to make sure they are dead.
Wooden truth at an arm length.
Conducting symphonies of childhood.
Drumming the lids of Rubbermaid trash barrel lids.
Tapping twigs, poking pegs, brandished branches.
Summer sticks carry more weight.
A very special thanks to A and L, for showing me the joy of finding what I once had, but somehow lost.
40/40: Summer Poem Slam-a-bam is a ongoing project in which people have joined me for 40 days and 40 nights of on-demand poetry. They have submitted the concepts, ideas, and subjects; I’ve done the rest.
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Welcome to my effort. Yes, as a great procrastinator, it requires great effort to stay focused on something productive that matters to me. I’ll find any old excuse to traipse from project to project, and I rarely end up at the place I started. I find this maddening, and exhaustive. So it is with high hopes, and a greater grasp of self-awareness, that I embark upon staying the course so to speak.
I enjoy writing. Be it blogs, fiction, poetry, etc. I love the craft and the act of creation, the art in and of itself, for it’s own sake and end. I am happy to be able to do it.
Some stats:
Born: March 1974
Education:
St.Francis de Sales, Charlestown MA
Don Bosco Technical High School, Boston MA
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell MA
Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown MA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
North Virginia Community College, Arlington VA
Harvard Extension School, Cambridge MA
Place of residence: Somewhere in the land of metro Boston. It’s vaguely familiar and becoming home more and more by the day, but when you come from “The Town” all else fails by comparison.
Favorite Color: I’m partial to all forms of blue.
Favorite Author: c’mon! don’t expect me to answer that, there are too many.
I enjoy memories of playing 80’s Atari better than playing any advanced gaming system that exists today.
Some day:
Hope to be recognized for my paper clip collection. As well as my 27 rejected applications to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailiey Clown college.
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