September 2020
Robert K. Johnson
choirofday@cs.com
Bio Note: My poems are spins on our everyday world, which grips me much more than science fiction worlds do. A now retired college teacher, I've had several collections of my poetry published over the years.

Where I Live

I've always lived in cities
and suburbs close to cities.
Or so I thought.

But today, 
happening on a letter
I wrote decades ago--

a letter
stark and intense as midwinter--
I discover that a part
of me once lived (still lives?)
in a weather-beaten cabin 
hidden in a dark forest.

A Perfect Movie Plot

The acting, directing,
editing could all
have been leadenly
un-first-rate

and Groundhog Day
would still have been
a box office hit.
Is there anyone

nagged by regrets
new or decades old
who wouldn't—just like
the movie's hero—

welcome the chance
to replace a bad blunder
by—this time—doing
exactly the right thing?
©2020 Robert K. Johnson
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