A Matter of Urgency
Into my head, a little poem blew.
I mulled it over while scrubbing the loo.
I polished the poem while I polished the floor.
I finished it off at the grocery store.
So, I wouldn’t forget it, I sped across town.
On the traffic ticket, I wrote it down.
Pat D’Amico is a former school teacher who lives in Bellevue, Washington. Her verses have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Light, and Lighten Up Online. She contributes regularly to Northwest Prime Time, a newspaper for readers over fifty in the Seattle/Tacoma area.