The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 11/15/2008)

[RetroLounge]

Squirrel Hunting

You can sit in fallen leaves and gnawed hulls,
your back against a hickory, and close your eyes,

think of nothing about which you can speak,
nothing that could matter to anyone watching you.

Don't let the gossiping wind stir your thoughts,
whir in your ear and pretend to be innocent.

You can hear above such cover, hear nails on bark,
teeth wearing holes, shadow sounds that hide

in plain sight. Or you can be content just knowing
them and open your eyes to the blinding world.

Edmund August

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Edmund August is the Executive Director of the Kentucky Writers' Coalition. His poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Poetry, The Nebraska Review, The Louisville Review and Smartish Pace, Issue 2. He teaches American Literature at McKendree College in Louisville.

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:hi:

RL

[RandomThoughts]

1. I like that poem.

Very nice find, it is an interesting contrast to feeding the squirrels.

[RetroLounge]

2. Thanks!

and welcome to DU!

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Good morning, my dear Retro!

I love these poems that give me a glimpse into an alternative universe!

This is lovely...

Thank you!

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

4. You are welcome!

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

5. I like poems like this one.

Short, packed with sensory stuff, satisfying. (Oh shit, I sound like Snickers commercial.)

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

6. Some times you feel like a nut...

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

7. That would be Almond Joy.

Get it right, please. :) :hi:

[RetroLounge]

8. It's all chocolate to me...

and how can that be wrong?

:rofl:

RL

[Chorophyll]

9. True that. :) nt

[YankeyMCC]

10. Hey

[RetroLounge]

12. ...

:hi:

RL

[Xipe Totec]

11. I often don't reply to your threads

after reading the poem and being moved.

Often, I feel any reply would be inadequate.

So I don't reply.

And yet, I enjoy them.

I thought you should know that.

[RetroLounge]

13. Thank you!

Feel free to just say hi...

:hi:

RL