October 2010 Issue
Down on the Farm
It gets my goat to hear you lie.
We’ve hidden no black sheep.
So hold your horses, cut the corn.
Don’t make another peep…
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Sally Yocom is a graduate of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and taught public school music and gave private piano lessons for many years. She is now retired and having fun with poetry. She just completed writing a book called 103 Styles of Poetry (with examples by Sally Yocom). She and her husband have three grown sons, including identical twins.
It gets my goat to hear you lie.
We’ve hidden no black sheep.
So hold your horses, cut the corn.
Don’t make another peep…