Snake
A
garter snake fatter around than
most rests
like a lazy dinosaur
on
the warm rocks alongside the front walk.
I'm surprised when my wife
asks me to catch him
and let him go in her flower
garden.
“But he's a snake,” I say.
“Yes,” she says,
“and I want him in my
garden
to
get rid of the moles and mice.” I smile.
“He will get rid of the moles and
mice won't he?”
I
smile again, “Why of course, honey.”
Though I know he's too small for
that
I simply cannot resist the
temptation
of putting a snake back
into the Garden at the request of a
Woman.
sea urchin spines
The landscape alongside the
highway
is frozen white
broken splintered trunks of trees and
stumps
poking from the frozen-over lake
like
sea urchin spines.
I’ve left work to take a
drive,
couldn’t stand being inside one
moment longer,
needed some air, some sun.
Even a solitary drive
along the highway is better
than
being stuck inside,
my face in the dirty computer
screen,
fingers clicking across the
keyboard
like sea urchin spines sticking into
my soul.
Kettling of Hawks
Grainy-textured turquoise hue like a
dying flame
scrapes at my white and dusty collar
bones,
and at the base of my thick skull,
scrapes
until my flesh is pink
again,
dream-like streaks tug at my
soul
or
perhaps it’s my psyche, I frequently confuse
the two, then my wife speaks, cracks
open,
like cracking open a pink lobster, my
revere –
“One of the birdwatchers on the
mountain today
lent us his binoculars so we could
see
the hawks kettling, rising up over the
trees
where the tree-line ropes off the
horizon,
and it was an amazing sight to
witness.
Have you ever heard of kettling
before?”
“Well no,” I say, and while I’m
uncertain
if it is a correct term it sounds
good,
sounds poetic – a kettling of hawks,
as it turns out,
is
a gathering of hawks flying together
in
a flock, rising and swooping,
sometimes lazy, other times
intense,
and as the hawks flew, pumping their
wings
then gliding, through my psyche, or
maybe
my soul, they caused
the scraping to cease for a
time
in the dusk before
nightfall,
and that made me feel good
for the first time that
day.
Michael
Estabrook is a baby boomer who began getting his poetry published in the late
1980s. Over the years he has published 15 poetry chapbooks, his most recent
entitled “When the Muse Speaks.” His interests include history, art, music,
theatre, opera, and his wife who just happens to be the most beautiful woman he
has ever known.
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