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Ron Scully

ron scully 2022    Ron Scully is a retired bookseller.  After a lifetime on the road, an original Willie Loman only funnier, he has settled into the foothills of the White Mountains to read and write. He has published widely in short form Japanese verse. He was schedule to have Darlington Braves and Listening for Thirteen Blackbirds to hit the shelves before the pandemic, from Atrium books, but then the world changed.

He is currently at work on a play and an anthology of sports literature. 

 

 

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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

Listening for Thirteen Blackbirds

     

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Ron Scully CVR Listening for Thirteen Blackbirds 2022 

Cover: ‘Like a bird on a wire’
by Lauri Burke
over ‘Carib’ by Lorraine Caputo

 

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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

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Ron Scully © 2022