Birthday

Look at
you

scoring like
clockwork

in the
game

of a
lifetime

*

Credit Report
 
I’m lucky
to have you

to stand by

and help
me to stand

when I can’t

stand (or
stand by) myself

*

Synesthesia
 
Nothing brightens
a room
 
like the
first words
 
you fill
it with


*

Drop


What startled me more than
what I took

for a squirrel's nest

as it crashed limb by
limb the long

way down the oak

was how catching at last
not six feet

from the hard earth

it gathered its disarray into
an owl and

retook the difficult heights

Robert West


If you have any thoughts about these poems,  Robert West would be pleased to hear them