Short Estimates Poems

Estimates say there is one venomous snake
Per square meter, 4000 in total, a snake clambake
“Golden Lancehead Vipers”
Deadly venomous snipers
Remind me never to visit Snake Island by the lake!...

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McDiver’s Creek


Autumn’s over.
Wheatcake odors flood the wood
front porch. Andrew Stock,
in mackinaw and overalls,
tamps first tobacco of the day
and estimates his morning.

In an open field beyond McDiver’s Creek
a colt, palomino apricot
and snow, nips grass between
great gallops and the shock of trees. 


Donal Mahoney...

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Whom among us are free?
You've a fever?
Sweating and fearing the next test-
of best estimates and a last guess?

Septum and blight;
yet not a roll in sight;
got the sniffles? Got the flu? 
The Birdman calls for you.

Watch your wife cry.
Watch your children die.
Watch the public mania hopelessly sigh;
and then - their depression....

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Marlboro Man


Autumn's over.
Wheat cake odors flood 
the wood front porch. Andrew Block,

in mackinaw and overalls,
tamps first tobacco of the day
and estimates his morning.

In an open field
beyond McDiver's Creek
Andrew Block can see his colt,

palamino apricot and snow,
nip grass between great gallops 
and the shock of trees.


Donal Mahoney...

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Kentucky Dawn
  
Autumn’s over.
Wheat cake odors flood the wood
front porch. Andrew Block,

in mackinaw and overalls,
tamps first tobacco of the day
and estimates his morning.
 
In an open field
beyond McDiver’s Creek
Andrew Block can see his colt,

palomino apricot and snow, 
nip grass between
great gallops and the shock of trees.
 

Donal Mahoney...

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