Tim Moder | American Parade Routes

American Parade Routes: poems by Tim Moder. Number 21 in our Rane Arroyo Series.

[ cover image: Brule River Glacial Spillway / Jerseth Creek ]

Publication:  February 24, 2024 [100 copies]
25 pages
ISBN 978-1-960693-13-6
$ 12.00

Tim Moder is a poet living in northern Wisconsin. He is a member of The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. His debut chapbook, All True Heavens, was published with Alien Buddha Press in 2022.

Donkey

As I drove east on Highway Thirteen toward
Bayfield where they have the apple festival,
I saw you standing stock still, statuesque,
as you stared at the side of the great red barn.

The next year I saw you, again motionless
standing alongside the barbed wire fence,
so close to the hum of the hot highway
with your fuzzy ears flattened, listening.

Then you surprised me as you dropped
to your knees and rolled back and forth
on the dirty farm floor, four legs splayed
straight toward the August sky.

Lolled to the side, your long smile never
left your strange and happy head
as you rolled back and forth, back and forth.
I was laughing so hard I had to stop the car.

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