SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (S.A.D.)
The wild turkeys were out in the highway this morning
Recalcitrant death wish clutched in scaly talon
Here I sit thinking only deer get winter depression
Kamikazeing equally despairing commuters in icy weather
Driven gobbling mad by the budding Bradford Pears
Late at night I ponder hacking down the neighbor’s pair
Unlike Washington, fibs readily prepared
The winter wheat, luscious seas of green
For cattle to graze and farmers to dream
Of warm spring days after the rains,
Of catching their limit on largemouth and crappie
Before the heat waves and drought-born pains
‘Bartender, another whiskey. Neat.’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A former minister, then machinist and now accountant, Ron Arbuckle lives in Oklahoma with his wife & two kids on their family farm. After secretly writing it over the last two and a half years for his wife, Ron recently self-published his debut novel, A Matter of Design, and is currently working on a second novel while exploring poetry and other short forms of literary expression. His micro-fic and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Trash Cat Lit, Michigan City Review of Books, Hidden Peak Press and others. You can find his irreverent, poor taste on X, @touchgrass_ron
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