The Sadness and
Beauty of Car Boot
Sales
by John Doyle
Straffan, August
Saturdays, sunshine immortal
though sad lately at
dreams of its own demise
which none of us are aware
of,
handling a tatty Evening
Press dated
3rd May 1972 when Les
Harvey
dedicated eternity to that
sun.
Sadness and beauty are
hard to decipher on days like these,
sad like a French
cult-classic that needs just yellow softness to tell us
something bad will soon
happen in Europe, after slim-boating jacket man leaves punt lakeside,
doesn't wish Sweet Marie
good night;
beautiful like my dog
easily loved by the most cynical face suddenly turning that face away,
canine damp, though grin
wider
than from here to that
former station
some miles up the road.
Wise soul's money says
beautiful nearly every weekend
John Doyle
likes to write poems about James Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, and Bertie Windsor.
Sometimes he writes about other stuff, too.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg is
eclectic. She’s played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket weaving,
and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified herbalist,
and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of calculus.
Her
creative efforts have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The
Best of the Net in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once
for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers
Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the
Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had more than forty-five books
published and has served as an editor for several literary journals. Channie’s latest book is Eternal not Ephemeral, Eternal not Ephemeral: Greenberg,
KJ Hannah: 9798852494016: Amazon.com: Books, a collection of fifty tales, including "Absinthe
for Aliens," "Isabelle," "Transitory Unease," and "Special Teeth," which were originally published in Yellow Mama or Black Petals.
