FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: POINT UP Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words point and/or up, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on April 18th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Point Up will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 19th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Edward S. Gault


Beside the Point

i.

There would be no point

My father explained

For anyone to hire me

For a job

Unless I could do the job

To their satisfaction.

But the turtles and the trees 

All do their jobs 

To Someone’s satisfaction.


ii.

For anyone to hire me

For a job

My father explained,

There would be no point

Unless I could do the job

To their satisfaction.

But to someone’s satisfaction,

The turtles, birds, and trees

All do their jobs.


iii.

To someone’s satisfaction,

The turtles, birds, and trees

All do their jobs.

But, my father explained,

Unless I could do a job 

To their satisfaction,

Nobody would hire me.

For a job.

There would be no point.


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