Poetry has long been a passion of the artist with poetry published in a number of national and regional publications.
The working class beret
with apologies
Academic clothes carefully unkempt
casual,
grey-black hair streaming early seventies long,
flowing,
shock of shagginess
the delicately dilapidated beret,
topping it off.
Ah, the beret!
Badge of rakishness from some by-gone conference,
too corny not to be chic,
always on,
in class, akilter, edgy,
in the faculty senate, rebellious
in his darkly lit office, alone
in the arms of his student lover
where he is young again, if just for the moment.
Without the cap, she will flash away
sniggering
and he wants desperately to be seen as dashing in her eyes he sees so shallow.
The beret sustains,
that while once he dreamed of venerability,
sagacity
emeritus
he was so much older in that dream.
Surely he was younger than that now.