What’s on the Roof?

POETRY CORNER

– 6/24/15

Rooftop in Ventura, CA (Photo collages – Rick Wilson).

Michele ​L. ​Harvey

snowflakes fly
through winter dreams
I wake
to check outside my window
for reindeer on the roof

Michele ​L. Harvey says “What could tickle the imagination more than the idea of creatures on the roof. An artist must always nurture and be attuned to the inner child.” She reaches back into childhood, bringing the idea of ‘reindeer on the roof’ into the broad day of New York adulthood.

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Gary Blankenship

the patter
of countless critters
on the roof
some say rain
I say mice who lost their way

Gary Blankenship lives near Puget Sound listening to patter on the roof.

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Rooftop in Jinhua, China (Photo collages – Rick Wilson).

Roy Kindelberger

moss covered roof
of an abandoned home
eight years
a kitten, now a cat
sits on the back porch

Roy Kindelberger of Bothell, Washington, wonders why something, like an old house, might have been abandoned or the history of it. He likes to interpret what he thinks happened in his own writing​.​

*Photos by Rick Wilson, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Caltech in Pasadena. Rick loves to observe and depict the habits and personalities of his fellow critters.

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