February 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 new 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.

Every Year of Our Lives

summer rephrases 
the spring's landscape,
changes bud to petal
blossom to leaf

just as autumn
rephrases the summer's
landscape and winter
the autumn's,

while season
after season
you and I
keep rewriting

the past--until
much of the world
we once lived in
has been expunged.

A Metomorphosis

Time is a hulking stag
that stomps through an endless forest
brushing aside low branches
and ignoring your existence,

but is also a butterfly
that flutters through the air
and alights still again on the petals
of your favorite memories.
©2021 Robert K. Johnson
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