Andrew Bambrick
Leaf Peepers Time
Once the luminescent leaves appear on trees
The leaf peepers are smitten.
Pint-sized knee huggers squeal with joy.
Their tiny feet trudge through the newest...
Poverty's Family Web
Hopes and dreams languish
Poverty's sticky web holds members in place.
Impermanence and unpredictability
Define their movements.
Limited by stretched family dyamics
And precarious economic opportunities,
Downward mobility...
The Selfie Mist
The selfie is a universal icon.
Its presence is felt everywhere
But remains only digital mist.
We are both the subject and object of our...
Cloud Musings
The cloud, internet's invisible twin,
Became humankind's ever-expanding memory locker.
Heralded as a communication panacea.
Accolades quickly followed: instant connectivity,
Colossal business opportunities, a pathway to
Utopia with...
Closure
Universally sought after
Arduous to achieve.
Grief's heavy air envelops the survivors.
Morning time elastic
The absent member relationship
Continuous on within us.
Broken sleep
Time slippage
Sluggish movements
Pain and sorrow need...
My Old Man
The call
Unwanted yet expected.
My emotional in-flight bag stuffed.
Anticipated loss, sorrow and pain
Fought for my attention.
Late airport arrival
Blinked tears
Hushed voices
Resignation tones
25-minute commute
Seemed unending.
Room...
Grandfather's Time
In the pre-dawn light
The caged canary sings.
Miners like random clumps of clay
In iron cages descend.
Carbon lights' flickering tongues
Illumine sharp shining
Glistening anthracite coal.
Their veins...
The power went out in the whole village.
I could see my Grandfather Thom's face, which was partially visible by the light of candles in...
You are not required to take a course in it. No one can tell you where to find it. Yet it is necessary for...
Let's face it. We do not value human tissue and its continuance on this planet.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, school children practiced...
