Best Snagged Poems

Hot August, 1974, I was back for my second year at college,
having just settled into a new place at Anita Apartments,
right next to the guys’ apartment complex called Tanner’s.
My first night, we answered a knock at our door.
Steve Dietrich, a friend of my roommate, entered...

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~Geared for island-hop, boat's wheeldrive jams but spares us--from coming rainstorm




When Plans Don't Go to Plan Contest
For Silent One   8/25/2020...

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SNAGGED
We trod the dusty path home from school, mottled 
with casuarina shadows.
Gurgling ripples gave way to deep pools, my brother
skipping stones. 

Khaki Campbell ducks  brought chuckles. 
Tipping back their heads, 
water dripped from beaks, filtered, from their prey.  

One day at the brook,...

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She strapped on those heels and clicked away
Knowing she would soon be his queen of the day.
He tried to ignore her, but she was jazzy and cute.
He did not have a chance, this smitten galoot!

What was it about her? His mother asked him.
He stammered and...

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They shouldn’t use barbed wire in a nudist colony
If they do it shouldn’t be much higher than your knee
At Christmas time in England, no-one expects nudity
Well I was nude and I did not expect a buzzy bee
I tried to leap the barbed wire fence to...

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Barnyard gossip was a buzz
Old goat had snagged himself a young bride
Farmer Jones wiped off chicken fuzz
And promptly ran back inside

Come see! He told his wife. It’s true.
The bride wore white, she carried blue.
Other farmers came by to see.
Old goat made some kind of history....

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SNAGGED     

We were both outcast,
Not understood, 
Settling for second-best.
Both strangers to self.
Demons, nightmares, questioning sanity.

A  lifetime ago she’d  felt only lonely,
Old,  weak,  unprotected,  lost,  until
Snagged by a net one day
And delighted she could not escape
From...

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