A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Sunday, July 19, 2020

carpet tactic

Alas alack a carpet tack!
The plush we cushed our flooring with
has worn and matted down with feet
Until it sticks. Our soles to prick
so unpredictably, despite
the same damn spot
is where it's at. Except
most times it doesn't poke!
You have to step a special way,
and you can't seem
to master that.
So down on fours,
you tease and push
the fibers and the tufts
aside and there! There is
the point of it. How could
a thing so pointy
hide?

2 comments:

Mel said...

Ouch

dogimo said...

Yeah that used to be a pain in the ass. The foot, actually. At the bungalow in Scotts Valley. Or whatever, I guess it wasn't a bungalow.