The Poems of David Garlick
In the quiet early morning, when sleep slips silently away and a cold nose is insistent or a tickle tail is trailed. When a heavy paw says, “Wake up, come share- a beauty to behold!” Then I rose to see this wonder. Of which I’d just been told. Hidden by the darkness. Hidden by […]
And the crowd roared, they clapped with many hands. They rose as one to cheer the athletes on; as past the stands the runners, all a sweat, continued on their muscle aching way- to glory and exhaustion’s thin white tape. No, not those famous names, we know so well. No, not those athletes paid […]
I found her, the other day. A fragment from a time machine, a memory, a faithful friend. We reminisced of distant times. The fun we had, those dances stepped. The blare of lights, the shades of sounds, music lost to other moods. She was not as she used to be but then I too […]
On the hard, a car up to it’s axles in the flooding tide! Quick the rise, Anxious the motorist, Locals grin behind hands. Shoes off, socks off, White feet, toe dip, cold. Police car flashing, serious fun. In 1020 King Chanute tried to teach us. What did we learn? Nothing of course! […]