Robert Nordstrom Verse-Virtual 2016 February

February 2016

I am a Wisconsin poet and recently retired school bus driver who has spent the last six years teaching high schoolers how to respond when an adult says good morning and kindergarteners that it's probably best they not lick the seat in front of them. I have published poetry in various literary journals, including Upstreet, Main Street Rag, The Comstock Review, Naugatuck River Review, Verse Wisconsin and others. My book The Sacred Monotony of Breath, was recently published by Prolific Press. More information can be found at www.robertnordstrom.com.

Closet Treasure

I love those old black & white saw-toothed Kodak moments:
the confusing scowl in a sea of smiles,
the mysterious sidelong glance
that didn’t make the photo album cut,

the ones mothers frowned at while shuffling
through the stack a couple of weeks after the family picnic
then dropped into the unmarked grave
of a cardboard box,

but kept, like chipped china,
their Instamatic truth safe
from Photoshop crop, or worse,
the digital click into oblivion.