November 2022
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 now 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.

Old Men Exercising in Shopping Malls

Like the slow hands
    of a clock, their route
circles the edges
    of a crowded mall.

They stay close to the walls
     in case they need
to reach out for balance.

     —Just glad they're still able
to outpace time.

While Staring At The Ceiling

What meditating monk
in his robe is as wise
as the housewife
lying awake 
in her nightgown 
who, bone-weary, knows
something in the house 

needs cleaning or fixing 
or replacing,
knows her life,
everyone's life
is always
in some way
incomplete
©2022 Robert K. Johnson
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