Approaching Seventy

by A. D. Winans 
  
The words come harder
Set their own pace
Sometimes the tortoise
Sometimes the hare
Always stripped bare
 
Bukowski told me in a letter
You seem like a man who knows
Where it's at
Didn't then
	                 Don't now.
Just hanging around with words
That dangle like an outlaw's neck
Stretched at the end of a rope


© 2008 by A. D. Winans. All rights reserved.
A. D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet. He is the author of over 45 books of poetry and prose. In 2005 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall in NYC. In 2006 he won a PEN Josephine Miles award for Literary Excellence. In 2007 Presa Press published a book of his selected poems.