The blue sky was leaping
over the clouds
like a teenager on crutches,
swinging the sticks ahead
and then catching his britches
which were sliding off
his narrow hips
so that his lavender shorts
with the puffy cotton frogs
began to show.
Lois Marie Harrod’s 13th and 14th poetry collections, Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth appeared in 2013. She lives in Hopewell and teaches creative writing at the College of New Jersey.
