Document Type
Poem
Publication Date
Fall 2001
Department
English
Language
English
Publication Title
Illya's Honey
Abstract
Once, when you poked your garden hose
into a basket of geraniums hanging
from the eave, out twirled
a shining gray body,
a frosty, fanged mouth.
Recommended Citation
Johnston, Carol Ann. "Poems My Father Taught Me." Illya's Honey 7, no. 3 (2001): 16-17.
Comments
"Poems My Father Taught Me" won an Honorable Mention in the Dallas Poets Community Fifth Annual Open Poetry Competition.