In The
Doorway
Equipment picked
up,
Oxygen tanks not
needed,
Electric
wheelchair.
She tarries in the
doorway,
First days of a
widowhood.
Moving
On
In the parking
lot
His son, also old, bald,
gray,
Loads the pick-up
truck,
Life’s furniture
remaindered,
Bound for Assisted
Living.
Couple paddling
by,
Canoe caught in golden
glint,
Cool August
evening.
Without other
evidence
He assumes they are in
love.
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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