A.D. Winans: I was selected to be Poet of the Week at Poetry Super Highway

I was just notified that I have been selected to be a Poet of the Week at Poetry Super Highway.
My poem below will appear online  at their web site during the week of June 2-8 and then be part of the Poetry Super Highway's archives.

 

 

!EARLY BIRTHDAY POEM

sitting here fifteen days
before my seventy-eighth birthday
I drink my morning coffee in solitude

wear the early chill of morning
like a quilt of stitched memories
my mind a nosy intruder
plots the course of my life

the moon a graveyard
shines its eyes down on me

surely that is not me
I see in the mirror

the months the years
revolving doors

like the trick mirrors
at the Funhouse
at Playland at the Beach

friends fewer in number
wait for me in my dreams

like ducks in a blind

left with a cup of morning coffee
a spoon that stirs memories
of  young women

the pleasure of warm flesh
on fresh linen sheets
hot as an iron pressed
to a singed garment
turned to bones that rattle
in the graveyard of my dreams

the conversations that lasted
into the early morning hours
turned to idle chatter
with ghosts from the past