Ron Torrence published his first short story at age 50 and his first poem at age 80. Even so his fiction, non-fiction and poetry are pretty widely published. He’s also written five novels and a screen play, all unpublished. Much more to do. His work has appeared in American Writer’s Review, Crack The Spine, The Dirty Goat, Dos Passos Review, Existere Journal, Forge, The MacGuffin, Menda City Review, Nassau Review, riverSedge, Orange Willow Review, Slipstream, Eureka Literary Magazine, Oxalis, Ash, Potent Aphrodisiac, Rockhurst Review, The Tower Journal, Thereby Hangs A Tale, Typo, Sour Grapes, Circuit Traces, RE:AL, Reflections Literary Journal, way station magazine, West Wind Review, Wild Violet, Yellow Mama and Pleasant Living.

royal visitor

swoop!	

cardinal 
on my railing

i
am important

imperious look
his side eye

no time to tarry
likes of you

away!

judgement day

humming bird
helicoptered up
beak to nose

are 
you
a
flower
?

hum
hum
hum

zipped away

i was not

the end of summer

i

beneath the bush
fat chipmunk
settles
in his pudge

well satisfied

scurries off!

you never know!

ii

crickets 
chirp 
all day

insistent

iii

leaves
so green
so plump

barely 

clinging

to branches