People’s Poetry

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poem # 14
(written by Gary Smith)

LARRY

At the park
putting out food
for the cats
he said listen

I heard nothing
just a truck going by

It’s a robin
listen
you hear them
when it’s clouding up
or going to rain
or at 4:30 in the
morning right before
the sun comes up

Listen he said
do you hear

Yes I said
I do now

© Jacqueline Jackson 2009

This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2009.