Meet Denis Feehan from Mesquite, Nevada

After retiring from aerospace, Denis Feehan  found time to devote to his passion, writing poetry and short stories. He lives in Mesquite, Nevada and joined Utah State Poetry several years ago as an At Large member. Active in music and writing, he loves to write poetry and fiction. Serving as President of Heritage Writers Guild, a chapter of the League of Utah writers located in St. George, Utah, Denis keeps busy. He recently entered the Chaparral contest-part of Redrock Writers' annual seminar and received 3rd prize recognition in the Chimera Division for his humorous poem A Very Mary Christmas. He has won awards at the annual Mesquite Fine Arts annual poetry and art contest where poets enter poems and artists select a poem as inspiration for their artwork as well as awards and publishing of his poetry from the League of Utah Writers.

TRASH DAY TUESDAY

  

The sound of thunder

like a tank brigade

forced my eyelids open

wide revealing my panic

It was Trash Day Tuesday!

and the bulging, sated cans

were still locked in the back

like felons serving five to ten

I checked the bedside clock

as if that neon dial mattered now

fact was the sun was up

and the tanks were here

I flew out of bed

like an F-18

with the wife yelling at me

as if that was gonna help

The concrete porch was glacial

on my sissy bare feet

how do penguins do it?

I ran like a football player

through a row of prostrate tires

to the grass oasis out front

but it was just as arctic

as the porch and wet to boot

I slipped as I right-turned

but got right up on my icebergs

and dashed to the side of our base

but the clock and I had failed

the thunder had waned

and the wife was pointing at

the tanks as they turned the corner

to do battle on the next block