Greg Wood is a retired English teacher and coach who has lived for 66 years in Delmar DE/MD on the Delmarva Peninsula. He has also worked in the construction industry in steel fabrication and home building. He earned a BA and an MEd from Salisbury University, Salisbury MD. Greg has 3 sons, 7 grandchildren, and one newly minted great grandchild. Visit his blog.

Bored Hearts
By Greg Wood

Shuffle and flip and shuffle again
I press my card at your side of
The table and look for a response
In diamonds so that I can dump
On you
A queen
You are most slick and grin
And shove a spade my way
Digging that having a long
Run I
Cannot escape
I wish I could club you