J. K. Durick- Three Poems

   Mood

 

The sunshine

Works just fine

 

Doesn’t need

Any help.

 

This light

Music

 

Your kind

Words

 

Should be

Saved

 

For another

Day.

Simile

 

A cloud is like an ambiguous remark.

It hangs there, an amorphous horizon –

As puffy, as unreliable –

With a careless will of its own,

Tugs this way, then turns itself,

Tumbles aside, does designs

As fabulous as Incas or anyone

Left to his own delight.

                 Tenses

 

The past perfect, in hindsight

The continuous, present continuous

The future conditional, they say –

It’s simply that way. 

 

 

 

J. K. Durick is a writing teacher at the Community College of Vermont and an online writing tutor. His recent poems have appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, Yellow Chair Review, Third Wednesday, Shot Glass Journal, and Eye on Life Magazine.