Six Ways of Doing

August 6, 1945, Hiroshima; August 6, 1991 the first-ever web page online. So this month swings between darkness and light, destruction and creation. It’s a time of richly starred night skies and, I hope, brilliantly sunny days, a time of letting go, and looking forward, sometimes in strange ways …

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SIX WAYS OF DOING

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a reversed nine                                                   
bounces back and up

the ball of wool unwinds
a kitten’s paw

a whirl or a reel
a tornado on the screen

a cloud tethered
to the red balloon

twice trinity
or a triple pair

half a dozen eggs
on the stair

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first published in Stoneboat

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A Summer Father … Here is poetry … interweaving images culled from a wartime childhood with bittersweet memories of a “summer father”. Lynda Monahan