Debbie Olson

Things Held Over Sixty Years

A Jefferson 1950-D nickel. Transistors. Vegetable seeds. Car parts from JC Whitney. Bean boots. Sheet music. Yarn. First day cover of the 1969 moon landing. Art supplies. Telescope lenses. Flower seeds. A Bose radio. Computer parts. National Geographic. Country Living.

pulling out of the driveway
for the last time
neither snow nor rain
the red metal flag
set to no mail

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About the Author

Debbie Olson’s poetry has appeared in Acorn, Akitsu, bottle rockets, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Presence, Poetry Pea, and Prune Juice, among other journals, and The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. She lives in New York State.

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