CAT-TAILS poem

Cat-Tails

Finger-sticks
poke up

tall ones and stooped
ones bend low
in supplication…

sentinels at
shore’s swept rug

© 1993 Richard L. Provencher
All Rights Reserved

first published Fall 1993
Parnassus Literary Journal
Volume 17, No. 3 ISSN 0748-8785
Forest Park, Georgia, USA