When You Coming Home Eric?

Review by Geoff Page in The Australian

 

DOMESTIC POEM

everyday

i’m going to write

a poem

about how my wife

does the washing

everyday

 

but i am too busy

hanging out the washing

 

as i peg

her knickers

to the frayed line

i think of robert frost

 

he said re free verse

to hang the washing out

without pegs you’d

have to tie shirt arms

to each other …

 

my brother colour codes

the pegs a line of red

and a line of green

and a line of blue

and a line of yellow

and a line of white

 

birds have pecked

this line for its

underlining for

their nests …

in autumn wispy curls

reflect my aged beard

 

my wife interrupts:

“what a lovely drying day!”

as she is wont to say

everyday

Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Promo Trailer

I've come across this Elvis montage in the '50s as research for my autobio. When I finish the section with this mentioned, I'll post it here. Rock on! Ha ,,,

3 Poems in PERIODICITY Journal

 Here are three recent poems by myself that have just appeared at https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2021/04/andrew-burke-three-poems.html

Thank you, rob mcclennan, editor in chief.