Who created

Who created

Sculptures

Outside barns

Fallen, un-tenoned

To be chosen

One sunny time

While taloned

In the trees

Slept owls

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2016

In dog years

In dog years

The star named

So eager

In passing

Leaves us

Hunting lonely

Far too circling

And scentless

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2016

The small plain

The small plain

With clouds, bush, sky

Virtually blew

Dusty threw

And through

My frame

Not a hair

Could I detect

Countering

It flew

Somewhere’s a gully

Declining

Yet channeled
Downward, toward.

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2015

Now that we

Now that we

Can no longer

Read the sky

This burnt stick

Feels divine

You and yours

Vintage ideas

Were doing

A reading

Somewhere in

Downtown Manhattan

How big is it

In real life?

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2015

Boy killed

Boy killed

As storm pounds

Mississippi

A condensed

And paraphrased

Revision

While I was deep

In REM sleep

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2015

Handy people

Handy people

And sculptors

Give the gift

Of creativity

In little bits

One’s small parts

Of a great organization

Phones, computers, cars, doors

And more

Found in crack clusters

In sidewalks

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2015

That sad girl

That sad girl

Theory

An insatiable need

For three-letter words

Like: ohh, ohh, ohh

May have cost you

Those monsters

That shape

Brain anatomy

(Hiked up

Grand canyons)

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2015

I would water

I would water

The tree

I would

That dead thing

In my living room

Boughed in

From the cold

To warn this

Chill

Water I would

This pointed dark

Nurseried

To weigh some light

Its sappy smell

Still killing

Tom McGlynn

copyright 2015

Hate will lose it (after Blake)

Hate will lose it

Self-displeased

Against no one

With care to tease

The reek of heaven

Hoped in hell

Quietly a landslide

Stood

Held upon

A weasel root

While a boulder

In a lake

Drained away

Its lapping foot

Hate will bring a self

To bear

To free it’s will

To wander there

Inside a heaven

Hoped in hell

 Tom McGlynn

 copyright 2015

The roots

The roots

Of the current

Crisis

Enjoy the comfort

Of working

From home

Water-broken

Boulder left

The claws

Of the ice

Withdrawn

copyright Tom McGlynn 2015