Aubade by Roger Pfingston




Six a.m., a cacophonic band
of hammering and sawing
echos in the woods across
from the field, workmen
building yet another house
where the street ends at a heap
of gravel.
                 Stoutes Creek
barely sings, not enough rain
to wet its throat, and it's looking bad
for Mother Nature till a dull-
feathered songster drops out
of the sky like a comic book
champion and trills multi-voiced
from a mulberry tree, mocking its
way into the heart of a rooftop man
whose hammer hangs midair,
head cocked, his leathered midriff
heavy with unplayed notes.



ROGER PFINGSTON'S poems have appeared recently in Poet Lore, Wisconsin Review, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, WordWrights, and Chiron Review. New poems are scheduled to appear in 5 AM, Yankee, and Intimate Kisses:  The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, an anthology that will be published by New World Library early next year.

Pfingston's work has also appeared at the following online magazines: Web del Sol, New-Works, PoetryMagazine, and Poems Niederngasse. Poems are due out this Fall at the online magazines, Poet's Canvas and The Adirondack Review.

 

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