Bill Rector Verse-Virtual 2017 April

April 2017

I am a gastroenterologist, living with my wife in Denver. Most of my poetry is not medical. My work has appeared most recently in Field, Rattle, and Hotel Amerika.

Macbeth

Startled the living
Daylights out of me, they did,
Those bulldozers at the forest’s edge,
Blades like the fallen
Chins of men heavily sleeping,
Snoring, but ready to wake
With a sooty hack and roar,
Shaking me in my rooted stance,
Big men, sod-dewed, root-bearded men,
Men with a heavy tread,
Men that come and do what they have to do
No matter what it means to you.
Men who bite off more than they can chew,
Then chew it.

Published in The Offending Adam

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