August 2024
Robert Nordstrom
rnordstrom2@yahoo.com
rnordstrom2@yahoo.com
Bio Note: My publishing credits include upstreet, Main Street Rag, The Comstock Review, Chiron Review, One Art and various others. Several poems have garnered awards from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Oregon Poetry Association. My 2016 poetry collection, The Sacred Monotony of Breath (Prolific Press), received honorable mention from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. My latest collection, Dust on the Sill (Kelsay Books), was published in 2023.
Conundrum
Back then I was there.
Now I ask how I got here
when here’s now there then.
Pitching In
I asked God
but He was busy
so I forgave myself.
Packing for Vacation
Young friends say have fun.
Older friends say please be safe.
Band-Aids or beach balls?
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