final resume
the aim of this poem
is to use up the irresistible
bait of small talk
to usurp your expectations
taste the lemon of fish
the vinegar of air
in the tides of relationships
I was standing in a bar
near a group, reminiscing
about older workers, ‘codgers’
long retired from the company
people seen from a distance
on nodding terms, names afloat
on the oceans of time …
at some lull in the fishing
for answers on the bare horizon
one would throw a line
cautiously, in the direction of
I wonder where H or B is now?
- © Margaret Ruckert 2021
Margaret Owen Ruckert is a widely published poet. After a career in TAFE Science, she retrained to tutor English. She is short-listed for the 2021 Society of Women Writers National Poetry Competition, having won first prize in 2007. Two books, You Deserve Dessert and musefood, which won an IP Poetry Book, explore café society. Sky on Sea, a book of tanka, was published recently*. As Facilitator of Hurstville’s Discovery Writers, she presents regular writing workshops.
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