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spun gold and
yellow
straw

any real
difference?

i’m happy, as long as there’s hay
spread warm and wet
beneath our
bottoms

in our loft with
door that..

when booted open
lead us into
heaven.

Grumpy Gorman
igram: https://www.instagram.com/gèèrumpygorm

..then back to ladder’s bottom.

*considered working “haylofty heights” into the poem, but sometimes my dad jokes know their limits.

painting by Beverly Doyle – https://fineartamerica.com/featured/hay-loft-beverly-doyle.html