Consistency Common Today
The technician replied to our texts promptly twice,
And we emphasized how much we felt that was nice.
“It’s the way that I work,” he shrugged with nonchalance,
Then the rest of our texts did not get a response.
Mr. Winick began writing poetry several years ago, after concluding a long career as a business attorney. He composes mostly formal poems, although his two favorite poems – Langston Hughes’ Mother to Son and Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays – are both free verse.
Well over 200 of Mr. Winick’s poems have been published in nearly a score of online and print journals in the USA and abroad.