Peggy Hale Bilbro

City Snippets

a friend of mine, same age…
…can’t believe…
Ha ha ha ha ha!! Sí, sí ‘mano!
…before we could even…
…and the guy is like… 
I think we can just…
…was probably the worst…
…and he’s just walking around like…
If we…
…pero no tienes…
She’s, like, not very… 
That’s not true
…a few minutes…
…at the next corner…
Excuse me, do you…
Listen, I have no idea where I’m going.

leaves
caught in an eddy 
break free
one by one out of sight
around the bend

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About the Author

Peggy Hale Bilbro has her roots in West Texas, grew up in Colorado, and now lives in Alabama. She began writing poetry years ago amidst the agony and ecstasy of graduate studies at Vanderbilt University and has been writing haiku and tanka for over a decade. She enjoys the challenge of finding meaning in a concise form.

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