The Ramingo’s Porch – “Oh No, Not Another Nature Poem” and “The Lake Isle of I’m Asleep” Two Poems By Ethan Goffman

Oh No, Not Another Nature Poem!

What more is there to say.

The hills are hilly

the grass is grassy

            and still inexplicable

as in Whitman’s day.

Leaves lie like litter, individual as snowflakes

each a jagged, textual miracle,

            woven, a brown blanket

            future fertilizer

            for new leaves of grass.

Occasional birds twitter

            a snatch of song

            a suite

The Ramingo’s Porch – “Native Americans Return to the Suburbs” A Poem By Ethan Goffman

Native Americans Return to the Suburbs

Native Americans tread, creep, sprint, and leap
through America’s suburbs.

Rabbit nibbles incessantly on vast salad bowls,
breeds copiously on a million lawns,
watches nervously for enemies, Cat and Car,
feels a rush of adrenaline, strange joy as
she dashes into a thicket.

Rabbit suckles her babies,
loves them deeply, forgets them quickly,
remembers the centuries, lives in the now.

The Ramingo’s Porch – “i am nobody and i like it that way” And Other Poems By Ethan Goffman

 

i am nobody and i like it that way

i am not a White Supremist
i am not a Nazi
i am not a Zionist
i am not a nationalist
i am not a patriot
i am not an American
i am not a good citizen of planet Earth

The Ramingo’s Porch – “I Love Carrie Lam” And Other Poems by Ethan Goffman

I Love Carrie Lam

Middle management is the hardest,
caught between China and the swollen Hong Kong mobs
forced to quash
the people she loves

Like any mother she must protect her children
even if she has to
smother them

The Ramingo’s Porch – “To A Dead Cat” A Poem By Ethan Goffman

To a Dead Cat

Your body lay crushed and broken in the street
one eyeball bulging out, floating atop a crimson crest.

In life you had been
sleek and black
a fleeting shadow
glimpsed from the window.

I called animal control
to come pick up your broken body
the remnant that had been you.