Town and Country: Three Tankas
August 2010
Couple paddling by,
Canoe caught in golden glint,
Cool August evening.
Without other evidence
He assumes they are in love.
Battle
of Wits
Chipmunks foraging
Under the new bird feeder
Tries to climb pole,
Senses the baffle, turns back,
Smarter than you would have thought.
Big Box
Wal-Mart,
nine
a.m.:
Aisles empty, almost cheerful,
Mammoth TV screens
Side-by-side, all but unwatched:
Yesterday’s football highlights.
Robert
Demaree is the
author of four collections of poems, including Fathers and Teachers, April 2007,
and Mileposts, October 2009, both published
by Beech River Books, and Things He
Thought He Already Knew, published online in 2007 by Slow Trains. The winner
of the 2013 Burlington Writers Club Poetry Award, he is a retired school
administrator with ties to North
Carolina,
Pennsylvania and
New
Hampshire, where he
lives four months of the year. He has had over 650 poems published or accepted
by 130 periodicals. For further information see http://www.demareepoetry.
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