little pocket poetry

Writer Bucky Ignatius lives in Cincinnati’s East End, where he has nurtured two daughters, both artists, and more recently, a wild garden. His poetry has appeared in “Best of Ohio”, “Brevities”, as well as in several local publications. Bucky has also collaborated on a number of hymns, anthems and songs with local composer Rick Sowash, in both directions, with existing poems set to music, and with lyrics written for existing melodies.

Bucky has a quote on the wall of his study from Canadian writer Margaret Lawrence: “When I say work, I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”  In the half century since finishing high school in rural Indiana, poetry has been the thread weaving odd jobs that included draft counseling, gourmet baking, corporate sales and golf-club making. He currently feathers his empty nest as a part-time elevator operator.

                         Poems by Bucky Ignatius

it’s spring, the hammock

is up, come over and lose

another earring



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