The Morning Shape Poem by Patrick Keenan

The Morning Shape



These are not the family men
Taken to thinking of when
Nah, these guys are wound up
from beginning to end of now

No faint aroma of others
drift from their open coats
that gather in the wind
About as much as they can hold

A few are still drunk
and most will always be still crazy
That honed edge of one
has put a sharp crease
on the old familiar pair
of heart and mind

Monday, November 7, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: work
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
the morning shape is the group of men waiting to be selected to work that day on moving trucks
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