The Flight of the Ex-Worm and Other Poems

By C. E. Pomroy

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796052732

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Copyright © 2019 by C. E. Pomroy.

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CONTENTS

Pops, The Invisible

Concerning the Gunner and His Dream

At Last Encounter

An October’s Incident

Reflections in a Small Town Church

Dangerous Presumptions

To the Dark Woman

The Street Lady

Desperately Seeking Tolerance

The Woman Who Laughed at the World

Waking Is A Rudeness

Wind Driven

Without A Word

Closure

Haunting House

The Prize

Monkey

On the Rather Sudden Demise of my Favorite Cat

The Man Who Counted Blue Cars

The City: Seen a Second Time Alone

I Suppose

Charlie at the Bar

The Telling of Dreams

Surrealistic Observation

Damp Reflections

Alas, The Light

Awakening

Downward Seeking

Dead Sea

Far More Does the Rain

A Longing for Rain

The Flight of the Ex-Worm

Cicadae Voices

Chameleon Me

What Matters Most Often Isn’t

No Matter What

Song of January

Sometimes a Sour Something

Wisdom Comes Belated

Is Not Is

Boy with a Blue Guitar

Following a Hint of Yes

Some Things Stick

Merely Gray Matter

The Monster That Wasn’t

I Know Where the Monster Lives

Wallace Stevens Finds Redemption

Dealing with Attitude

The Carousel

Advice to the Devastated

Short of Death

To Ronnie

Renewing an Acquaintance

Icarus

Old March Leans Weary at the Door

And then …

The Unbearable Scrutiny of Light

The Optimist

Just Desserts

Restricted Intimacy

Hold the Invective Please

I Heard the News Today, O Girl

On the Sidewalk

Discourse

A Choice of Words

Directions for Discourse

Ain’t Newspapers Handy

Nonetheless

Why We Fall

Pops, The Invisible

Was a while past what the doctors could do

that pop, standing before an array

of tolerant smiles and patronizing glances,

declared his soon-coming invisibility.

The proclamation made, he retook the sofa,

slumping into the final anticipation.

There, through his weakened grasp,

he scanned the growing faintness of his hands,

realizing at last

how much had slipped through them.

Only occasionally would he rise

and coax his reluctant half to the bathroom

to gauge his fading features

in the ruthless mirror, that clock of sorts

marking a slow

but certain transformation.

Came the day was some foreign fellow

gazing from the mocking pane,

and pop smiled lamely at who was there,

and who was there smiled lamely back.

Then, a benign but cumbersome spirit,

he shuffled toward a cool corner

of that unfamiliar