Lake Tahoe Moves

                        (Summer 2004)

Richard Alan Bunch

 

 

My son is playing chess

against himself

on both sides of the board.

Already he

has beaten me

twice. (Not bad for a ten

year old!)

Maybe he will

outplay his opponent.

 

Someone has to win.

That is how most games

are set up.

It might even be his best side.

I smile,

continue to write this poem

as deliberately

as chess moves

with the endgame

in sight.

 

 

                                                            (for Ricky)

 

 

 

Richard Alan Bunch's works include Summer Hawk, A Foggy Morning, Sacred Space, and Running for Daybreak. Thrice nominated for a PushcartPrize, his poetry has appeared in Fugue, Cape Rock,West Wind Review, Many Mountains Moving, Comstock Review, Poetry Cornwall, Fire, and Black Mountain Review. His latest work is HawkingMoves: Plays, Poems and Stories. He resides in Davis, California.

 

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