Haiku, Short Poems, Photos
Graphics, Concrete Poems
By Michael P. Garofalo
"Loaded Logging Trucks Rumbling
Up and Down Daily on US 101,
In WA and Oregon.
They bring Timber to the Mills,
Where machines and men,
Shape Douglas Firs into 4x4's
For the Home Depot bins.
Timber and the Northwest,
a USA economic mainstay;
Replanted Managed Forests the Norm
in these 2022 days.
Coos Bay darkened in the fierce wind and rain;
while the Indian Casino was bright and gay,
slot machines running night and day.
Quiet Brooking, a humble seaside place,
with the nearby Pelican Bay Prison locking up
the worst of the human race.
A dead whale in the sand near Orick rots,
the carrion birds eat and happily squawk.
Eureka Bay, was wasting away
in the plywood papermills' scum,
something needed to be done;
and, the old nuclear plant's
abandoned concrete core,
a statue in the sun,
had to be undone.
Whether in Oakland or Tacoma, ports so busy,
docks unloading, 24 hour bustling cities."
Haiku, Short Poems, Photos
Graphics, Concrete Poems
By Michael P. Garofalo
