BWNA is fortunate to have two poets on its newsletter team. We suspect there are more poets in the neighborhood — aspiring or otherwise — we just don’t know about them … yet! Feel free to submit a poem to Editor@BWNApdx.org.
Good Fortune
by Tim Gillespie
Look: a double rainbow out my front window!
Maybe a promise: better luck ahead.
If not: a double rainbow out my front window!
©2024 Tim Gillespie
BWNA board member Tim Gillespie was a public school teacher in the Portland area for almost four decades. He is a widely published poet and essayist.
Looking Down the Road
by Chris Rauber
Autumn means the end is closer than the beginning. Pumpkins that sleep in August heat will shortly turn bright orange like showy leaves that enliven the October view, before they too depart.
All too soon, cold winds will blow and ice storms batter. Let’s welcome the glittery leaves
gleaming mounds of squash gone all Hollywood in Halloween glory. The brisk air is bracing; embrace it.
©2024 Chris Rauber
Chris Rauber and his wife, Kim Williams, moved to Portland and B-W in the summer of 2022 after many years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He worked as a journalist at the S.F. Business Times and other publications. He was born in Oregon.