December 2023
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.

Praiseworthy

Certainly applaud the people
who gain solid satisfaction 
by reading biographies
and histories stuffed with footnotes

—but cheer the people who—spurred
by a need in their lives—bring home 
a mystery novel that keeps them
reading long past midnight.

Song For My Sister

(1925-2011)

I see an old film and remember
watching it with college friends;
an old pop song brings back
a girl I once dated--all
such mementos stir memories
of people I have known.

But you, Jean, come to me
in sunlight or in shadows
any time you want to.
				And always
I beg you to stay longer,
stay and hurt me with love.
First published in POEM
©2023 Robert K. Johnson
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