HAIKU
FOR PRISCILLA
New
Hampshire,
August 2013
The
clothes line empty,
Library
books neatly stacked:
They
left this morning.
Summer
reverie:
Golden
light at five
o’clock,
A
screen door shutting.
MINT
CONDITION
Existential
quandary
Posed
by a Lifesaver:
Whether
to chew—
Sudden
wintergreen rush—
Or
press gently
Between
tongue and cheek,
Dissolving,
A
life lived mildly.
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 150 periodicals. For further information see http://www.demareepoetry.
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