Ray Greenblatt
Wednesday's Child
Other kids
in the neighborhood
are lucky: fair, graceful, active
loving, giving, good.
But you poor child, how do you
mark your calendar
through dull days, worse nights?
With communion wafers
on a parched tongue, by
how often the creek
overflows, or by
the smack of the back
of a father's hand.
Bio
Incline Press in Oldham England has published only two poets, Seamus Heaney and Ray Greenblatt. Mr. Greenblatt's ebook Twenty Years on Graysheep Bay is now available.