"4 Poems" by Mark Jackley

POEM ON THE PAGE

catch me,

save me

from the page.

STANDARD OBIT

fun size of

this

side

MY EASTER ISLAND

The hay bales will return.

The Andromedins made sure

by teaching us to sow

the dreaming earth with tiny

stars in disguise.

FALSE SPRING

Just kidding.

Only April snow

on a shocked spruce.

Could have happened

to me. Could have

happened to you.

Mark Jackley is a poet who lives in northwestern Virginia.