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Moving Words

I’m going to hop on this poem
let it move like a rhino
leather seat worn beyond years
eye of extinct planet
honk its horn contemporarily
tippity galumph.

Poems like a trolley
where we tidy the room
wipe clean our windows
scanning for flowers
and calico trimmings
every sway a day.

Climb aboard this poetic condor
scrunched ensconced in feathers
essential heat throbbing beneath
no longer taloned to the ground
no limit
all space.

  • Ray Greenblatt is an editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal and teaches a “Joy of Poetry” course at Temple University-OLLI. His most recent book of poetry is From an Old Hotel on the Irish Coast (Parnilis Media, 2023).