What I Can Give You
I am gnarled and weathered gray
shedding autumn after autumn
toward winters howling for spring.
But, when the air turns thick,
heavy against every breath,
lean your head against me.
I can give you shade.
Danny Earl Simmons is an Oregonian and a proud graduate of Corvallis High School. He is a friend of the Linn-Benton Community College Poetry Club and an active member of Albany Civic Theater. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals such as Fifth Wednesday Journal, Off the Coast, Shadow Road Quarterly, Grey Sparrow, and Naugatuck River Review.
