Daddy Love--By Judy Moskowitz--United States

Daddy Love

He came to me with broad shoulders

A straight back

Carrying many rolls of linoleum

Up and down old tenement stairs

Of yesterdays past

Strong legs a mustache

Always with a cigar

I learned to love the smell 

Of masculinity which he wore proudly

A ladies’ man for sure

He taught me the old standards

Irving Berlin and Gershwin

When he sang

He only sang to me

I wear his gene by choice

Taken the red eye

Through two marriages

But never found a facsimile

Santa Ana winds

Fire storms

Crossing the DMZ

Daddy love carried me on his back

Singing

Judy Moskowitz is a professional jazz pianist originally from N.Y.C. now residing in Florida.  She started writing poetry three years ago and has recently been published.   Her poems will be in an anthology book by Michael Lee Johnson.   She has also been published by Thepoetrycommunity and Indiana Voice Journal for the May edition. Music is in her veins alongside poetry.