DANNY P. BARBARE - POEMS

Danny P. Barbare has recently been published in the North Dakota Quarterly, South Carolina's Best Emerging Poets, and Poets to Come A Poetry Anthology Walt Whitman's Bicentennial. He attended Greenville Technical College where his poetry won The Jim Gitting's Award and his poetry has been nominated for Best of Net by Assisi Online Journal. He lives with his wife and family and small dog Miley in the Upstate of the Carolinas.

​The Janitor’s Work

​And so the janitor uses
   the imagination
to clean it
the yellow pencil
the muscle of it
   across
the page, the eraser, the
   pine handle.--

​Sweeping the Floor

With the good of it
   says the janitor
that is my stride
to sweep the floor--
   from side to side
like a smile in time--
golden as the straw
the handle so proud
   to hold.
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