Middle of The Action
Yesterday, a gray catbird
I spotted with wild picked berries
in it's beak, mewing above my head
like our neighbors housecat, An
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail made
love with the flowers edging the lake
His dionysian feast
These accounts of nature
brought a smile to my face
I find myself calling to nature
All the time at work
as I look from outside the
plastic windows
holding a rag sprayed
with Windex a
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Ian Mccleary
Poetry is important to my life because it gives me a way of saying things I never imagined were in me. My poems deal with all kinds of subjects, my attitude on today's culture, art, corporations, nature, etc. But these aren't the only things that I write about in my poetry. I don't have a favorite poet, but probably Michael McClure is the poet I have learned the most from, from his readings on YouTube.
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