Whole Note

The adults show the kids
How to wave goodbye
To the balloon
Rising past
The electrical wires,

For a moment,
A whole note
On an otherwise
Blank page
Of blue sheet music.

Grass

I follow white lines of bent grass
Up the hill, where a rider mower roams
A field, blanching wide circles,

While wheeling birds
Dampen the machine’s work
With shadows,
Returning to the grass
Its natural hue.

Best of the Net nominee, Rich Glinnen, enjoys bowling, and eating his daughter’s cheeks at his home in Bayside, NY. His work can be read in various print and online journals, as well as on his Tumblr and Instagram pages. His wife calls him Ho-ho.