No Longer a Swinger--By Michael Lee Johnson--United States

No Longer a Swinger

This painted cat

on my balcony

hangs in this sun,

bleaches out

it's wooden

survival kit,

cut short-

then rots

chips

paint

cracks

widen in joints,

no infant sparrow wings  

nestled in this hole

beneath its neck-

then falls down.

No longer a swinger

in latter days, August wind.

Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. Today he is a poet, freelance writer, amateur photographer, and small business owner in Itasca, Illinois. Mr. Johnson is published in numerous publications, his poems have appeared in 35 countries, he edits, publishes 10 different poetry sites