Missed Connections... Part 2 & Poem of the Day

Goat Drama--
While driving by the "Found your goat" sign, I was amused to see that right below it was a "Lost Goat" sign. I do hope these folks meet up.

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Animal Farm--

Animals roaming our streets is nothing new in this small town. In the ten years I've lived here, we've had a bull running through the downtown area (and no, we were not trying to recreate seaside version of the Running of the Bulls), I've seen my neighbor's sheep roaming his front yard and driveway, and once, a cockatiel landed in my backyard. My neighbor said, "I guess he flew here because you have a sign on your gate that reads 'Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary.'" Smart bird.

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P.O.T.D.--

Poem of the Day by Martha Silano from VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW --

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Across the yard, despite a fierce unrest,
I can’t help noticing the smudged chin

of an English sparrow, ululations
of cedar waxwings, robins slick

in the sloppy rain. If there were footprints,
they would be cloven. If this were an orchard,

it would smell of fingerlings, marimbas
and timpani, the polished floors

of my twenties & thirties. Not many hearts
have lifted like swallows to the cliffs

above Pomme de Terre lake, not many
have lived much closer than five doors down

from God. And yet I’m no girdle
on this galaxy’s expanding waistline,

and yet I’ve no sacred cows worth swimming
to the South China Sea and back for.

Each morning the silent coyotes
disappear behind my window’s dusty slats

just as an all-night cat in heat slips a paw
through her little cat door. My morning coffee

tastes of the earth, a cell or two of every creature
who’s padded or paddled, crept or crawled,

slithered or swam, who’s foisted a pincer
on an unsuspecting worm. Earwig. Juggler.

Jaguar. Saint. Bombardier riding shotgun
on a leaf held high by an ant.




© by Martha Silano

Happy National Poetry Month - Free Poems!

In honor of National Poetry Month, I'll be giving away a signed/inscribed copy of Small Knots and Geography, as well as a five small poetry broadsides from The Making of Peace Poetry Series with poems by Lola Haskins, Martha Silano, Alisa Gordaneer, Lana Hechtman Ayers, and Lisa Suhair Majaj and also a copy of Jeannine Hall Gailey's chapbook, Female Comic Book Superheroes (I'm sure we can get this signed as well! . . .J9?)

If you'd like to have your name in the drawing, please leave a comment below. I'll take all the names on April 14th and put them in a poet's hat and post the winners here on April 15th (TAX DAY!) Someone should get good news on tax day.

If you already have a copy of my book or chapbook, you're still welcome to be in the drawing, I'd be happy to inscribe it to someone else if you win.

So, leave me a note in the comments and I'll drop your name in the hat.