NO DIFFERENT “DOWN EAST”
We’d like to visit Maine,
But now it’s much the same…
Melting snow piles
And weary smiles
Waiting for springtime plain.
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Like us they’re tired
Alternately wired…
By long hours
Fighting snow showers
Paying the extra plows hired.
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Nearly out of salt
To keep up the lively assault…
Snow-covered roads,
Icy ones goad
Town employees to help out.
–Jonathan Caswell
IT’S MARCH, ALREADY!
Ice melt dripping from eaves,
The warm-up giving reprieves…
To snow laden roofs
Whose strength many proofs
Apparent in designs conceived.
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Bedraggled bushes appear,
‘Though snow banks still come to “here”…
Once eight foot–now six–
Out in the “sticks”
Trees shelter snow cover, my dear.
–Jonathan Caswell
JOANNE LEFT ALONE
Joanne was left alone
To run things here at home…
Administration
Is her station,
A paragon of efficiency honed.
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Alas, Eric got a call
To be on site after all…
But we’ll enjoy
Her presence (OH, BOY!)
And Eric’s, after the snowfall.
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Joanne we certainly trust,
Tender–like well-made pie crust…
Efficiency, caring
(We love what she’s wearing),
Her continuing here is a must!
–Jonathan Caswell
VISIT TO THE DOCTOR
(in the form of haiku—more than one)
Surgeon saw my foot,
No runs…no holes…no errors…
Can shovel snow soon!
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Snow and sleet descend,
Fear reawakened to drive…
Plow trucks out in force.
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Agreeable nurses,
Meeting lots of nice faces…
Doctor says…now stop.
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Own car must be cleaned,
Returning as wife’s chauffeur
No more: friend, will you?
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Health insurance fades,
Peddling faster daily:
Discontinuous service.
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Author hands out tomes
Company and smiles exchanged…
One was sold last year.
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Nervousness returns,
Cookie binges resulting…
Blood sugar testing!
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Gonna miss “his” nurses,
Evening young and shapely:
Hurries back to work!
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Playing “Doctor Says,”
Last word has Primary Nurse…
Wound care’s successful?
–Nine Haiku by…Jonathan Caswell
