A child
outside the preschool
grabbed her mother's leg
face immersed
in the tight tendon of this
trunk,
" I don't want to go!"
Some way
she senses
her complacent
float
in her mother's sea
A well-cushioned
dream
of neither here
or there....
Why is life so unfair?
Doug Holder is on the board of the New England Poetry Club and teaches creative writing at Endicott College. His latest poetry collection is " I ain't gonna wait for Godot, no more" ( Wilderness House Press)
Co-President of the New England Poetry Club
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene http://dougholder.blogspot.com
Ibbetson Street Press http://www.ibbetsonpress.com
Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer http://www.
Doug Holder CV http://www.dougholderresume.
Doug Holder's Columns in The Somerville Times
https://www.Doug Holder's collection at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/@
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