April 2021
Robert K. Johnson
choirofday@cs.com
Bio Note: My poems are spins on our everyday world, which has always gripped me much more than science-fiction worlds. A newly retired English Professor, I taught for many years at Suffolk University in Boston. I also for several years was Poetry Editor for IBBETSON STREET magazine. I have had several collections of poems published.

If in a low mood

may you pass a stream
where a rush of ripples
scatters sunlight everywhere

or glimpse a row of waves 
rolling their silver glint
toward the sloping sand 

or simply step
into a kitchen still drowsy
in the morning's glow

and may such scenes
be a breeze that lifts
a leaf of hope inside you.
Originally published in The Aurorean
©2021 Robert K. Johnson
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