Marcyn Del Clements
Born: 1940, in Brawley, California
Marcyn’s published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Appalachia, Flyway, frogpond, Hollins Critic, Literary Review, Lyric, Snowy Egret & others.
Other interests: photography, nature, Chorale & church choirs, stamp collecting, recorders, Celtic harp & Native American flutes. She converted her swimming pool into a pond, to swim with her koi.
airport toilet flushing and flushing new jeans tight buttons
allow me, she says
and waves her hand at the
automatic door
brushing the tangles
our of her hair
post kiss
cement mixer
leads the highway entourage
solid double lines
Christmas Day
even atheists
take the day off
cowboy gets a beer
checks his horse’s hooves
corner gas station
flies land on the mare
she twitches, stamps one hoof
which I was holding
golden cactus
in the warm morning sun
almost petable
if you kick a rock
hard enough it will never
ever come back
in a truck forest
me in my little smart car
feeling not so
in my tent
turning off the iPhone
blinding dark
meteor shower
untangling her legs
from his
my daughter
telemarks around me
slow parabolas
pain in the butt
she forgot to wear her
bicycle shorts
pedestrian walk
on Santa Catalina
the sound of flip flops
prostate cancer
radiation over
he plants bulbs
she knickers softly
trots up to me at the fence
power of apple
she rolls into bed
bone tired and pats the side
where he used to lie
she turns on the lights
all over the house, which he
turns off behind her