Persephone Abbott

Posts tagged “Poems

Just Like a Good Single Middle-Aged Woman

Posted on October 19, 2024

Last job I got Ipromised myselfwhen the money began to stagger drunkenly through the door just like a man I’d be sure to getthat new pressure washerI even checked out the specs and – no fault of mine – pre-selected the price range Year and a half laterI couldn’t help but noticethe screws from the teak lawn chair routinely hitting the floorwhenever I sat down — my one good chairHanging out online I scouteda second-hand egg chair and a new job I said I’d come collect the suspended eggI had already gotten the next job

Keith Kumasen Abbott reading his poems in 1975

Posted on September 26, 2023

I was recently reading some of my father’s poems that were published in a collection called Putty.  And today I found a video on YouTube of Keith reading from this book in 1975. I happen to own the copy that he dedicated to his parents-in-law, Hannah and Lloyd Hansen, in 1971, the year we were living in Bellingham, Washington not far from Tacoma.

Three Poems

Posted on August 27, 2021

Germany in August Listen now In the meadow near Old sheep stalls Musicians performing Mosquitos dancing – Take up knitting The suggestion came For the singer songwriter Less rhyming, More sequence. – Out of touch I ordered A whatever schnapps. Last week I inherited music from Larry Fishkind. He was a one of a kind tuba player. Unknown to him he graciously bequeathed to me a short stack of scores folksongs, Christmas carols Copeland Americana All without words. Socks It’s timeFor new onesA binary orbitStar adventureOne foot in tuneWith the other