johnsonboy

Usal

Pelicans fold like shocked hearts over the water
near a fishingboat, cannonballing into scum.
Everything hungers, down to yellowjackets
plundering a scrap from an abalone shell;
down to butterflies lingering against wind
on the yellow tansy.

There's weight to the surf broken up short,
to the cliff. You're there protecting eyes
and lenses from sand bursting around us.

I turn my head to the wind and the boat
tacks over the same ground, poles horizontal,
a negative image against the sun
punctuated by capsizing birds.
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I'm trying to put together a maunscript.
I have a pile of poems to go through.
I really don't know if it's worth the effort. But I'm posting this in the hope that people will vote on it. Yes or no.
If enough people vote yes on a poem I might be more inclined to include it. Or I may end up with a one poem book.
If people don't vote or vote no I will find something else to do with my time.
It's about time I got something into print again, and I thought this would be a good place to start
My last book is unavailable. I haven't even really wanted to put a manuscript together in several years. I'm not really sure I want to now.
But I have the time.
And a big folder stuffed with poems.

So, yes or no?