In recognition of Poetry Month, and to celebrate and highlight our treasure trove of Orcas Island poets, Orcas Issues is pleased and honored to again offer daily poetry during April.

An alteration

— Lin McNulty —

An alteration
Of consistency
Alas occurred,
Counter to abjectivity

Smiling,
and with tearful eyes,
reality ripped through
a broken garden gate
along a wayward path

Crying,
And with a gleeful smile,
Truth tore the corners
From a faded fence
Forward toward untold
Pleasures and misery

An alteration

Left alone, consistency takes comfort
In habit, uniformity, complacency

Ripped, consistency reels outward
Bounding toward fearsome follies,

An alteration demands aberration,
Normality strewn and shredded
A gutter covered in fallen leaves.

© 11/14/06 Lin McNulty

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