Autumn Sky Poetry Daily Features my Bicycling Poems

I am honored that the daily curated poetry blog Autumn Sky Poetry Daily chose to feature my chapbook Bicycling Poems and showcased one of the chapbook poems, “Cottonwoods”.

Cottonwoods

The wind is with me and with the cottonwoods

equally it is a race that we both want to win, 

and my titanium frame flies as I pedal, but those

seedy puff balls with their white cellulose filaments

tickle my nose as they blow past, whispering

“We are strawberries” or something like that,

anything but the tiny seeds they really are who 

like me rejoice exaggeratingly at losing the bonds 

of earth—gravity and mowing the lawn—-for awhile

but when all is said and done and the race is run

we both find a place to peg our tents and hope

there is water (and electricity and hot showers)

for there we rut.

I arrive at my campsite and set up my tent. I zip

it up tight so it won’t fill up with cottonwood Pappis.

“Do not try to germinate on my tent floor,”

I say softly.

“But we’re a bubble bath,” they exclaim.