| Aubade by Roger Pfingston | ||
Six a.m., a cacophonic band of hammering and sawing echos in the woods across from the field, workmen building yet another house where the street ends at a heap of gravel. Stoutes Creek barely sings, not enough rain to wet its throat, and it's looking bad for Mother Nature till a dull- feathered songster drops out of the sky like a comic book champion and trills multi-voiced from a mulberry tree, mocking its way into the heart of a rooftop man whose hammer hangs midair, head cocked, his leathered midriff heavy with unplayed notes. ROGER PFINGSTON'S poems have appeared recently in Poet Lore, Wisconsin Review, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, WordWrights, and Chiron Review. New poems are scheduled to appear in 5 AM, Yankee, and Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, an anthology that will be published by New World Library early next year. Pfingston's work has also appeared at the following online magazines: Web del Sol, New-Works, PoetryMagazine, and Poems Niederngasse. Poems are due out this Fall at the online magazines, Poet's Canvas and The Adirondack Review.
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