Papa and Pupae

Tending a switch
for bad behaved siblings
folded leather and paper
for cats, dogs, puppies, too
but especially for children

Red buds bloom spring,
from reddened butts,
seeing red all around
humors Papa's zeal ...

Of his appeal to be heard
beyond quieter mornings
nearer amid steaming roofs
rafted over bedrooms
of late sleepers

Eastern sky brightening
sloughs shaded grounds,

He stalks the ill behaved
with shoo-shes and frowns
his clouded mood
in morning mists, a mere
morning rays, foggy air, sears
when laughter and pleasures
around Papa reappears.



Patrick Darnell