blue skies poetry

wearing tones of pink   geometrical green

and her white Sunday-morning hat

she slows to a stop

       in front of the flowerbed

this lady who looks like a gladiola

escaped from some other yard

wanting to take root

grace my garden with her delicateness

I am honoured
       until I see

she is walking her dog

       one with legs the height

of the shortest flower in the bed
the dog sniffs  measures with a leg

and pisses on my marigolds
she looks up and down the street

and they move on

~ Bob Stallworthy

Bob Stallworthy has 2 self-published chapbooks and 3 full-length books of poetry published by a recognized publisher. The most recent book of poetry, Optics, Frontenac House 2004, was short-listed for the 2004 W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize. In Silhouette: Profiles of Alberta Writers, a non-fiction e-book hosted on the Frontenac House website was launched in 2007. He is a Lifetime member of the Writers Guild of Alberta, a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and a member of the Young Alberta Book Society. “Dishonour Among Plants” is from his next manuscript, Too Small for My Skin.

Filed under: Bob Stallworthy by akublik Date 1 August, 2007