1950’s turquoise totems
escape providers on countless
porches, not grandmotherly
like rockers, more kinetic
than lawn chairs, gliding
hypnotically, going nowhere
on cricket-studded summer
nights. Where did you end up?
Rusting silently in far-off
dumps, next to train sets
and Spam cans, as obsolete
as the clothes we wore
and the things we used to
believe.
Kathleen Shaw is retired from teaching at Montgomery County Community College. She now works as a writing tutor there. Her poems have been published online as well as in Anthology, Derailed, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and various other journals.