June 2015
A now-retired Professor of English, I taught at Boston's Suffolk U. for many years; helped edit IBBETSON STREET magazine several years; and have been writing poetry forever (or close to it). Several collections of my work have appeared (and not disappeared) (yet) in print.
What I Will Miss
are not those rare vacation moments
when I gaze at famous scenic sites,
but the rows of ordinary days
when I stop for the red lights overhead
on my town's main street that winter skies
render shadowless, and where store windows
display a beckoning array
of merchandise, or "For Rent" signs,
and strictly-business men stride by
and mothers tug misbehaving kids
while loud teenagers stroll along
as if they had all the time in the world.
-first published in Muddy River Poetry Review
©2015 Robert K. Johnson