Red Hen’s Daughters Is Available!

My book of poems Red Hen’s Daughters is now available on amazon.  Although I published a memoir several years ago with a lovely small press, this is my first generally available publication, a particularly satisfying one since most of the poems in this volume have been published previously in literary journals.  The book won an honorable mention in a recent Blueline Press contest.  Here is a sample poem:

NAPPING UNDER THE BIRD CLOCK

Roy decided to take the primitive view,

admitting to no tech knowledge.

Simply, a magician had trapped the songs

in the clock, leaving a silent cardinal

bereft, unable to call its mate.  A goose

had flown south without its honk,

and somewhere a drilling woodpecker

could be seen but not heard.  One small wren

couldn’t twitter the simple joys of home,

while a titmouse had lost its ‘fever, fever.’

During a single wintry day, the clock

announced spring evenings, summer dawns,

and autumn nights.  Here were the sparrow’s

lilted greeting, the owl’s low who-woe,

and the mockingbird’s shifting melody.

He didn’t mind the confusion.  Past seasons

appeared to his mind in disorder, a jumble

of remembered joys and urgencies, as if

the old cow’s bag still needed balm.

It made sense to him that a quick robin

hopped through the hoop of the clock

with a benign trickery, giving it out that

Mildred had just stepped into the garden

to harvest mint and strawberries;…

poem continued in the book Red Hen’s Daughters

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