GRACIOUS

By John Grey

thru the cellar window

squirrel & pigeon

under the allspice

with its leaves 

drunk on dew

despite the scale

strong sense of 

sun, earth, horizon

accentuated by 

dark underside 

of constant shoes

the world

thus framed

enough to support

ordinary everyday life

a good day

to put away the paintbrush

the canvas

for sweeping dust

& sorting out these boxes

a feeling of accomplishment

increasingly rare

mingling with thoughts

of Angela

& Ricardo

the strange reality

of business at hand

& other lives

going on somewhere 

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, City Brink and Tenth Muse. Latest books, “Subject Matters”,” Between Two Fires” and “Covert” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, Amazing Stories and Cantos.