Tap Dancing in Clay He could taste it The passing Years of Sunday chickens And once a week passion Drifted down the streets and lanes Of familiar obituaries and neighborhood funerals. The others had come together Lured by the promise of suburbia Financing by the government Dreams of forever fences Families like the [...]
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Another Kill Poem
Posted in Poems on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Poems, Uncategorized on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Figure on the Mall July 4, 2008 I saw The big wall The small wall The still wall The traveling wall The black wall The artsy wall at the mall I saw The gifts The teddy-bears The notes The cards The small balloons I know Some came Some went Some [...]
Another Kill Poem
Posted in Poems on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday in Summerville Kill walked slow Leaning against the Mexican cane Pausing to sniff at the Barbershop That wasn’t there anymore Remembering the days When the world had been saved there When old efforts were scarred over And Bert Hill had complained about the new neighbors Who wouldn’t talk to you And drove cars with [...]
The Effort at a Sonnet
Posted in Poems, Poetry on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an ongoing effort to actually write a sonnet. I don’t think the subject is sonnetical ( I love making up words), but I want the form to fit. I don’ t think it is there yet. Sergeant J. Doe Buildings should stand proud and white, Not covered with boards of failing stripe. [...]
Uncle Kill
Posted in Poems, Poetry on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
L. K. is bored. He had sold the trucking business to Uncle John Three summers ago. The miles had rattled his back and his teeth And the prices of tires had gone through the roof. John died in Pennsylvania. He has in the cab of his truck two days Before they found him, John’s new [...]
Easter Photograph, 1956
Posted in Poems on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We stand in front of the asparagus, Next to the rusty gas-tank Used to refill tractors and farm trucks. Oneal, the oldest, was the only one Who could turn the big handle To release the gurgling gas. He was cool, like those guys at the gas station, But he didn’t do windows and chewed tobacco. [...]
The Friday Afternoon Roethke Class
Posted in Poems, Poetry on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gardner is the teacher, And he likes Roethke And Dickey, But Roethke more Or so it seems, As I doodle in the margins of the Roethke anthology, Yesterday’s reading and a response, Turned in and now I sit Scribbling pictures of moist, And always green. I must get a green pen, If I am to [...]
Cemetery
Posted in Poems, Poetry on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The gravestones murky with rain Cradled by wet grass Are tended by green trucks That guard the mausoleum of those who fear the dirt. Row after row Erect themselves from the flowers And trees that drip wet morning And feed the worms of Poe. I come not to grieve, But to stand and [...]
Day After Cemetery
Posted in Poems, Poetry on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night dripped from the tree. There was no dawn, Just a gradual gray day. The sun had to be there. It had always been. But today, The sun is just belief. The rain came and went. Moments of noise, Followed by quiet, Birds And no frogs. The roar came on [...]
The Man on Road GA94-2307
Posted in Poems on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The road is exactly 4.3 miles long. It has two curves as it travels across Richmond County Between two four-way stop signs and two convenience stores. One curve allows the road to go between the Poseidon Model Car Racetrack and Self-Storage and a sign that reads: “F tur si of Pos don B ptis [...]
