Dennis Mahagin

D’S BLUES

The backyard
was sun-kissed,
better than death.
a sun
kissed lawn always better
than death.
and he came back on the way
he had left.
He came back in a way

he had left.

It was hard, but the sun
was better
in this yard.
He came back, he came back
the way
he had left:to take
the Kiss
stay

away from death.

Dennis Mahagin is a writer from Washington state. Many of his poems have appeared online, and in print, via two published poetry collections: “Grand Mal,” and “Longshot & Ghazal,” Dennis also serves as the poetry editor for Frigg magazine.