Where Worms
Heave Ho The Ghosts of Old
A tattered book
blows open on a dusty road.
Three elfish
images settle on the dry pages.
They yawn then
look at the rising sun
with the words
grumbling at their feet.
The dust whirls
within the swirling air,
a feeling
prancing, dancing over the fields.
Ghostly Bisons
graze in the sunlight,
bleeding on the
roofs of sleeping worms.
The elves twirl
the words awake,
dancing a jig
over the dusty book.
Grunts and
groans rise from below
where worms
heave ho the ghosts of old.
The words work
their way up from memory
while the slim
elves sink into the shadows.
The ghostly
bison fade, rising on the wind,
their hoof beats
thunder over billowing clouds.
Drops of rain
dissolve on the winding road.
A gust of wind
slams shut the tattered book.
Robert Krenz published a poem in 2014 in an anthology from the Cowboy Press. He and his wife live on five acres near Watsonville, Ca., with two horses and fifty rolling pigeons. He enjoys bonsai.
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