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Poems by Michael Estabrook

 

Youth

Sometimes as I'm driving
and the sun stipples
through the hairs on my arms
I am taken with my own golden glow
and feel somehow younger, virile,
more robust, good thing
to be now and then, at least
until the sun
goes down.

 

beneath the old crab apple tree

I wonder was it really necessary
for her to cut down all the daisies
growing behind the jumbly
rock wall beneath the old crab apple tree.
“I do it every year when they get so big,”
she replied when I asked her
about the devastation.
“They were all gangly
and some of them were dead.”
“Yes, I know, but I liked seeing them
anyway, a tangle of little
white flowers vying for the sun.”

 

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