Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.
Smitten
by Mona Anderson
When I saw him kneeling
in the dirt patch on the front lawn
head bent as if in prayer
for five minutes
then ten
willing the grass seed to sprout,
how could I not smile
smitten with his endearing obsession
with life
when he fashioned
a tiny tent over the humidifier to save
our new sick kitten
willing her to breathe and coaxing
her to live with eight dollar a pound smoked turkey
or when in my second week in the hospital
he brought me sweet scented
deep purple and fuchsia phlox
and prune cookies he made that morning.
Previously published in Pleasures Taken: In Our Dreams, Small Things, Escapes and Conversations. A Writing It Real Anthology (online)
Sheila Bender, Editor
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Mona Anderson has lived in the New Hampshire countryside for 46 years where she and her husband raised two sons and a multitude of cats. She is co-author of The Art of Building a House of Stone. Her work has appeared most recently in Touchstone, Smoky Quartz, Adanna Literary Journal, Northern New England Review, Earth’s Daughters and others.
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