This month, I’m celebrating living poets!
Look closely at the photos of the books by Chelsea Rathburn below, and you will notice that there are color tabs marking many of the pages. When this current Poet Laureate of Georgia came to visit our local coffee shop during National Poetry Month two years ago, I tabbed the pages that I requested she share during her reading. You can read more about Chelsea Rathburn here.
Ol’ Possum Playing Poker and Smoking Cigars In His Old Age
I picture him still sitting in some cafe
women in rustling skirts, old men with walkers
And that big curved room with the water lilies.
Hateful? He had a mean streak, maybe
thin tail pointing toward us, face turned away.
Taken from: The Talker; Eclogue with Paris and Prayer; Eclogue with a Line from a Postcard; Eclogue with Street Theatre; Small Deaths.
Common Threads 