Posted on 02/01/2015 2:24:26 PM PST by Silly
Dear Diary:
Some people look like their dogs; Paul Klenk
some like their spouses.
You see they belong together, and you smile.
This subway rider looked like,
and belonged to, his thick book.
Ginger hair, pulled back in a tail
away from his ruddy baby face,
matching his scruffy beard.
Youthful and burly, rustic and earthy,
dressed for the outdoors
in a jacket and a pale red flannel shirt.
Not yet spoiled by city life, innocent,
unadventured, but poised to begin,
clutching his treasured story in readiness.
What was that book to him?
Fiction? History?
Autobiography?
No clue from his silent eyes,
the exact same glacial gray slate-blue
as the dust jacket, subtitled:
An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic.
I smiled, too polite to steal the pic I wanted,
of the normal-footed man I had spotted
on the 1 train, reading The Hobbit.
(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Nice poem! I like the image. Sounds like Samwise Gamgee reading it. (I know, wrong book! LOL!)
Thanks, both of you!
Oh boy: I am quite thrilled to announce that Tuesday, only eight days after my Middle-Earth piece was published, I heard from the NYT that my latest submission was accepted, and is slated for publication soon! Will post on FR when it appears in the online edition!
Paul, that sounds a lot like our current president.... I can picture him doing just that on his way to a work site, just checking up on things, going incognito.
In any case, congrats!
Thanks, pAiC!
You really paint a very vivid picture!
Well done!
You were arrested? It was probably because you weren’t wearing your mask when you were composing your poem
LOL!
Thanks yourself! You really paint a very vivid picture. I’d love to join your ping list, FRiend. Glad to see you around.
You were arrested? It’s probably because you weren’t wearing your mask at the time you were composing the piece. ;)
LOL!
Oops...I thought it hadn’t posted.
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