CONTINUING CARE
Senryu
Sequence
Modem light
blinking:
Second cup of strong
coffee:
Retirement
morning.
Bicycle
Retirement home
dusk:
A bicycle built for
two,
Rear seat
riderless.
Seminar
At Golden
Meadows,
The end-of-life class
cancelled
For lack of
interest.
Community
The old form quick
bonds,
Fast friendships at
Golden Pines:
Short-term
investment.
Seniors Decorate
for Christmas
Putting up the
lights:
Cedar trees getting
taller,
But we are
shrinking.
Estate
Sale
Nursing home tag
sale:
Death, feebleness walk
the aisles:
Luggage, old golf
clubs.
Older
Drivers
Buicks ten years
old
Blue-haired ladies
peering out
Over steering
wheels.
Water
Event
At the swimming
pool
No seniors in the
water
Pool watcher
asleep.
Content
Try telling
poets
No more poems about
death:
They’re out of
business.
Robert Demaree is the author of two
book-length collections of poems, including Mileposts, October 2009, published by
Beech River Books, and a chapbook, Things
He Thought He Already Knew, published online in 2007 by Slow Trains. A third book-length collection will be
published in late spring 2014. 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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