Bird Bones and poetry

AvantAppal(achia) 5 is now online; it gives me the perfect reason to repost this photo; see why at https://www.avantappalachia.com/ 

Number 6 is due in December. The submission details can be found at the above address.

Old Man

Oh, that’s not who he is,

age is just the cap on his head.

And cranky: it’s what he’s been holding

since youth, his rebellion.

We should listen, but, only the old can know

what the old know.