Trojan horse weed,
smothering undergrowth,
its scent fires
summer evenings
long ago.
Just one more time
my stomach’s free fall
over possibilities
when my parents were young.
When I could afford
to turn down future happiness
and keep this one.
Dwayne Barrick resides in Ohio and works as an independent grant writer. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Blue Unicorn, Kin, Southern California Review, and The Road Not Taken. His long poem L’avventura, on the great film of the same name by Michelangelo Antonioni, appears online at Ragazine.cc.