top of page
  • Gary Hunter

Butterflies and Bull Riders - March 5, 2023

some poets are bull riders

some net backyard butterflies

others take spaceships

into the past or like to

swim through troubled waters


we write with the voice

we are given about a life

no one else has


and should listen to see if another’s

stretches our curiosity enough

to step out of our world of words


into one which take odd twists

or seems a bit feral or wayward

to those who don’t get out much


but oh how much easier to follow

sunny footprints in the sand

to an unmapped place


than through the brambles

of an overgrown path

on a coal black night

0 views

Recent Posts

See All

I can reach the top shelves of the two cabinets that hold wine and their glasses I’m able to clean and backwash the pool adjust its chemical balance feed and walk the dogs clean the pond’s filter net

you’re a Granny Smith I’m a McIntosh (touch of Irish) he’s a Golden Delicious she’s a Fuji didn’t we run young and silly through that orchard sampling everything found one or two that caught

offseason housefly! I pick up my first weapon limber a cold wrist

bottom of page