“Whistling”
Why tempt the devil,
theater people
want to know right
before they tell you
to go break a leg in a
voice
that carries clear to
the cheap seats, yet
to stand alone in the
spot light
perhaps a pianist in
the pit to accompany you on
The Fishing Hole from the Andy Griffith Show
is temptation too
great to bear. Grizzlies
out in Glacier
National Park take umbrage
with chance meeting as
they forage bear grass
speed, teeth and claws
imbuing them
with a quiet dignity
not unlike
Sir Alec Guinness in Bridge
Over The River Kwai
I thought to myself as
Colonial Bogey’s March
escaped my lips over
and over again
years ago on Johns Lake
Trail
trusting my tattoo to
have the same effect
on the ursine as it
does on the canine
the one I’m calling this
evening to no avail
from the back porch
where I stand
too old to learn how to
pierce the night
by blowing air across a
blade of grass
but old enough to know
better than
to walk silent past
the graveyard.
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