Leonard Gontarek
Mouthing the wind that falls
into the trees and behind the trees.
So good to be home.
Clouds break up like small planes. The cardinals and bluebirds at home.
My feet up on God’s coffee table,
setting down my drink without a cocktail napkin.
What Gontarek would do.
Grandmother in her wedding gown, softly: You are such an angel.
Moths going for the light like a dessert table.
Leonard Gontarek is the author of St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris,Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet, Zen For Beginners, and Déjà Vu Diner.His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, Field, Pool, Volt, Verse, The Best American Poetry, Joyful Noise! American Spiritual Poetry, and The Working Poet. He has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize and twice received poetry fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.