From the Archive: D.N. Simmers (CAROUSEL 15)

Staff/ July 15, 2020/ Poem

D.N. SIMMERS

Letting an Umbrella Open Into the Wind

I let

an umbrella

open into
the wind,
knowing
it would

bend backwards,

be ruined.

Maybe it was
not liking
the colour,
or the shape,

that made me

want to throw it

away

even as the rain
came down.

d.n. simmers is an online editor with Fine Lines. His work has appeared in Poetry Salzburg, The Storyteller, Westward Quarterly, Red River Review, Plainsong, Iconoclast, Nerve Cowboy, and Monterey Poetry Review.

Letting an Umbrella Open Into the Wind
appeared in CAROUSEL 15 (2004) — buy it here