Ron Scully

Ron Scully is a very retired bookseller. After half a lifetime on the road, a Willy Loman only funnier, he has settled into the Pacific Northwest to read and write. He practices haikai daily and has published widely in the short form journals. He has published a half dozen chapbooks, including Listening for Thirteen Blackbirds with the Origami Poetry Project in 2022. "Between the lines" is schedule to be published by Prolific Books in sometime in 2025. Otherwise he is working on a play and a sports literature anthology.

Occasionally he dallies in lyric verse but only when given. He is also a cancer survivor and a grandfather.

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► Ron's microchap is available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title & saving to your pc. Set your printer for 'landscape' printing. Folding instructions are under the Who We Are menu tab.

Origami Microchap
the river: a suite of micropoems
Click tittle to download microchap	January thaw white knuckle ice tightens the Amoskeag Dam through dark night beside the freight train tracks the river's black tongue	the word's headwaters where the Pennacook exalted "Merrah Awke" Pemigewasset gabbles beneath the old moon riverrocks…rounding	the way the riverbends around Bow's last ladyslippers the scarlet tanager upper Merrimack the gull scavenges for the scent of the Gulf of Maine • Ron Scully © 2025
Listening for Thirteen Blackbirds
Click title to download microchap Cover: ‘Like a bird on a wire’ by Lauri Burke over ‘Carib’ by Lorraine Caputo § to my lifelong lark, Kathy •	i between the office towers shadows longing into silences streets ii Aetna's red brick chateau overlook's downtown's sorrows murder of crows perch iii brass and glass tower sticks noon in the eye pendulum's passing sky iv flock of harpies pick up their darkside Chai between breaks, their beaks... v raven eyed actuaries look sideways askance sharpened pencils	vi Franklin Avenue Bakery day old sesame and sprinkles seeding ground dwellers vii a threesome cackle in charcoal feathered topcoats Heckle, Jackal, and Hyde viii Portuguese road crew scrum out of Michael's Dive miming their vuvuzela ix man with rook heart nests behind his lifelong desk pens his whole harmonium	x downtown drunken caw from the redbrick brownstones children carried off xi thirteen blackbirds roost along the courthouse lines unanimous jury xii Foxx's untimely clockface Roman numeral noon stolen by yellow eyed crows xiii feathery shadows soar in missing man flyover blackbirds bye bye . • Ron Scully © 2022

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