Poetry Friday: Autumn’s Shoulder (by JonArno Lawson)

Black Stars in a White Night Sky is a poetry collection of the kind not much published today. There’s no strict theme, and the poems are wildly different. Some are philosophical, some are nature-inspired, and many are silly. The unifying thread is simply that one person wrote all of them. You couldn’t begin to tie this book into a curriculum (not that that’s a bad thing), and I’m not quite sure how to sum it up, except to say that I’m really enjoying it, much more than I expected to at first glance. I admit I like to know what I’m getting into. In this book, you simply have to trust the poet and wade in. I’m not sorry I did. Here’s one lovely poem: Autumn’s Shoulder Just look at it: hard to remember, now the days have gotten colder this bare gray hill that I once loved was at one time autumn’s shoulder. –JonArno Lawson, all rights reserved

And here’s a sample of the silliness:

Eat a Duck

Eat a duck, quack-quack,
eat a duck, quack-quack,
when you’re hungry and you really need a snack,
quack-quack.

When you’ve fizzled and you’re knackered
and they’re calling you a slacker,
there’s nothing like a quacker on a cracker.
Quack.

–JonArno Lawson, all rights reserved

For more thoughts about this collection, please see Lisa Chellman’s review at Under the Covers here.

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