March 2024
Bio Note: My most recent poetry collections are New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005 (Barnwood Press, 2007) and Communicating the Bird (Broken Publications, 2012). I have been a forest worker and a public school academic tutor. I play jazz trumpet.
Almost Spring
Almost Spring but only February
almost February but only January
only January but almost March.
Almost everyday I play my trumpet
almost every night I ride the trains
every midnight I’m on the trains.
Almost every morning I turn on the radio
every weekday I go to work
every midnight I ride the trains home.
Everyday I spend at work
almost every weekend I play the trumpet
Saturday I ride the train downtown.
Almost every night I get some sleep
only everyday I go to work
every midnight I’m on the trains.
Almost Spring but only February
almost February but only January
only January but almost March.
©2024 Robert Ronnow
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