FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: GRASS LEAVES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words grass and/or leaves, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on January 17th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Grass Leaves will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, January 25th between 3 and 5 pm PST

Friday, January 17, 2025

Jeffry Jensen


BLOWING WITH THE LEAVES


Nothing crunches better than dry leaves.

Children, kittens, puppies gather

for hill rolls in the patchy grass.

There was a jingle that filled the pungent air.

Maybe it is time for a radio station

to plug into one of the closer planets.

Demos from Dylan were stacking up on the Moon.

A misplaced iron was left in the growing local fires.

Closing down filled my smoky head for the night.

I stopped tracking my dusty mythology at dawn.

Blood pressure has left town for the Alps.

There are red beans in my Vietnamese drink.

Amazon has refused to send me anything until the wind changes.

A quizzical knee bump had my cats jumping for joy.

A dulcet voice from San Pedro made the patchy grass stand up.

I like to sleep with my band instruments facing toward the South Pole.

I will be needed in Northridge on the next day

for impromptu otherworldly purposes involving leaf classification.


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