To step outside is revolutionary …
to listen to aviary opinions
instead of inside twitters
and tweets, to hear squirrel
complaints and harsh rhetoric
instead of air wave outrage,
to wonder at the woodpecker
beating his head against the wall
past all sense …. and perhaps
to just breathe in the moisture rising
from the grass with sweet whispers.
The trees may be gossiping
or thrashing their heads about
to the morning gales with rhythms
come from the latest craze.
To go out takes intent
and follow through.
It may mark you as wooly-headed
and strange to the neighbors.
But do not worry …
they are most unlikely to look
out from their windows to see you.
GOING OUT by Carol Hamilton | Sandalwood Vanilla Poetry Reed Diffuser
Carol Hamilton has retired from teaching 2 nd grade through graduate school in Connecticut, Indiana and Oklahoma, from storytelling and volunteer medical translating. She is a
former Poet Laureate of Oklahoma and has published 19 books and chapbooks: children's novels, legends and poetry. She has been nominated ten times for a Pushcart Prize. She has won a Southwest Book Award, Oklahoma Book Award, David Ray Poetry Prize, Byline Magazine literary awards in both short story and poetry, Warren Keith Poetry Award, Pegasus Award and a Chiron Review Chapbook Award, Editor's Choice Book for Main Street Rag.
