Tag: verse

• The Shirts

  

  These shirts show signs of wear and tear, The collars frayed, the cuffs rubbed bare. I see the signals everywhere. I see them in my mind like doom. They float like ghosts upon the loom. I slip them on like skin, perfume. I’ll have the collars turned before I fold them neatly in the drawer. […]

  Glen Fisher

  February 26, 2022

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• Clouds – A Poem

  

  A boy lies on his back looking at clouds. Only he is not looking, he is up there with them, up where they slide and collide mysterious as fate insubstantial as air. I have not seen clouds in sixty years, until today – there, overhead, in the blue sky that scrolls and unfolds – there, […]

  Glen Fisher

  February 4, 2022

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• Lost Poetry Project – Two Pomes

  

  The Road We Travel I think about the road we travelled, How it all seemed so serene – The sun shone down, like no tomorrow, On timeless hills and fields of shimmering green. Yet there was work to do, and cares to manage, Your sick child never really out of mind. This journey too would […]

  Glen Fisher

  February 13, 2021

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• Did I know then it was over?

  

  That long-ago momentin a hotel corridor –a woman’s soft mews and a man’sblunt panting. My own lifesuddenly unraveled,undone by this happiness.Or by no more than a mutuallysatisfactory encounter, a momentstolen behind a thin painted door.Until the couple stoppedwhatever they were doing.A sudden silenceand I moved quickly on.

  Glen Fisher

  January 30, 2021

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