It's Still Life

Noodling Isn’t About Pasta

I never bother
removing tinsel
from a Christmas tree.

It’s impossible, it’s like
removing a kite
from a telephone wire.

Or catching a trout
with your hands,
although

I used to be able to do that.
Dad taught me –
he called it noodling.

Yes, it’s absolutely true – noodling. It’s also calling trout tickling. As for the tinsel, we leave it on the artificial tree, and year after year it proves itself indestructible. Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille #142 “Tinsel”. A quadrille is 44-words sans title. ©Misky 2021 Shared with #apoemaday on Twitter