Two Men and a Truck

WBPC Winner - Pushcart Nominee

Packing up knick-knacks
In six months old
Newspaper
Taping bottoms, up
Of grocery store boxes
Sweeping up the dust
Of an old relationship
Moving out, moving in
More to life, living alone
Consequences too great
Together we clashed
Like polka-dots and stripes
Too loose, or too tight
It just didn’t fit me right
I’m crying my eyes out tonight
But, when I awake
Tomorrow morning
It will be a new day
I’ll be on my way
Footloose and fancy-free
Do what I want and say
What I please
No longer the prisoner
Who packed up these pieces
Of freedom, today
And moved away
In a truck
Without the two men.

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About the Author

(Antonia Love) Toni Huffman, grew up in Houston, Texas. Now, living in the Ozarks for 20 years, she is enjoying adventure and nature. She was an educator for 36 years, still a world traveler and now retired, focusing on completing writing projects. President: Ozark Mountain Poets (branch of PRA). Recent publications: poems in e-Merge Magazine, 2023-2024, SLANT Magazine, 2023. Won 2023 Woody Barlow Poetry Prize, nominated for Pushcart Prize. Poem in Spring 2024, Cantos: A Literary Journal.

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