Joshua Gray
PEOPLE’S CHOICE, 1976
I see it sparkling where flutterbys land. Spotlight dips through drops in a spider maze. The funny ad finishes and daddy calls it a metaphor but I don’t understand. He must mean a map since that’s what a maze is even a spider one. A maze like what the TV shows, now with more blue shapes than red. I think the game show is boring but mommy gets excited, shouts “Hurray!” and bounces to the kitchen while daddy tells me it’s not a game show but I don’t believe him because mommy just called grandma and mentions something about Carter. A contestant, I guess. Later the game show’s still not over, and mommy tries explaining its importance but settles on You’re falling over you’re so tired and I don’t notice my eyes close as I think of sparkling where flutterbys land and wonder what’s a metaphor.
Joshua Gray lives just outside Washington DC with his wife and to boys and is the DC Poetry Examiner for
Examiner.com where he started a successful poet profile series. He is a Board member for The Word Works and is Co-Chair for his local arts commission. His children's verse adaptation of the Beowulf epic will be released in early 2012 by Zouch Six Shilling Press.
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