The Poems of David Garlick
Emma has a “stand up stool,” it makes her almost tall. which is really rather useful when you are very small. She never needs a helping hand, to see what’s on a shelf; she never asks ”Please lift me up.” It’s, “I can do it by myself!” She drags the plywood platform […]
The Tyrannosaurus Rex, was the Dinosaurs King. His mouth was full of terrible teeth and he’d eat most anything. Now the ancient Rule of the Jungle is part of natures plan, Animals will eat animals, right down to modern man. Rex went looking for lunch one day, down a jungle trail. He happened upon […]
The dreadful tools of torture lay, gleaming steel, tray on tray. In cabinets of wood and glass, that catch your eye as these you pass. “Sit here,” she said. “We’ll get to you. The one you hear is nearly through and though his screams are not in tune, we promise to be with you […]
I love the early morning time, just as the sky is turning grey and birds in song their voices raise, in greetings to the dawning day. And having pushed the window wide, I sneak into a world of green there, camouflaged against a rock, I lie in wait, unheard, unseen. Then all at once […]