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Confederate Blues

August 23, 2010

Confederate Blues In Suffolk they say “The prophets baptize their whelps in brackish water” The salt singed stench Rises from swamps Of long tan grasses When we could no longer stand Our own urgent visions We would spin spit, Cursing our unconnected touch We would drink cheap wine By the gray Lynnhaven river And leave […]

Poem #1 – What The Secret Organ Gave

August 22, 2010

Poem # 1 (What the secret organ gave) I hear a voice From my skull’s center Vilified in some sudden quake That shakes the third floor Of my narrow life I spin the thin soup Of my days Into sonata skies Woven with soundless cries From a seven year old’s Sparse parched tongue What secret […]

Second Story

August 21, 2010

LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. Second Story read by Josh Kight. Second Story I have always been a second story man Flopping between heaven and dirt Looking down from the heights or peering peripherally at God while face down blowing dust. While trimming a tree I was once ripped across the thigh by a branch […]

The Oyster Song

August 20, 2010

LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. The Oyster Song read by Josh Kight. The Oyster Song Discarded oyster shells piled By the Lynnhaven river, had been roasted and opened Making comical mouths, screw drivers had finished the job We didn’t know how slow the joys were. Now I grind the sweetly singing fates Between filled molars […]

Scraped Cheek Blues

August 19, 2010

LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. Scraped Cheek Blues read by Josh Kight. Scraped Cheek Blues I’ve been up all night and I have out-lived myself. Shirtless at 3 am A soft broth of fear mingles with the freckles on my shoulders pulling bones down to the lustrous floor where you’ll see my reflection skitter and […]

On The Third Day

August 18, 2010

LISTEN or DOWNLOAD this poem. On The Third Day read by Josh Kight. On The Third day In the lounging field In the cotton White Webs In the swinging Egyptian air In the coffin’s mouth In the toothless red satin Lay my father. The day was anybody’s day. The day was bone inside out. The […]

The Cheap Yellow Chair

August 17, 2010

My father bought a cheap yellow chair It sat next to nicotine tabletops That allowed him to ride that coffee up And slide that beer down Smoke that ciggy Smoke it round and round Arteries squeeze soft violins And fog drops figs around my ears I am free of the war walkers, red-faced from the […]

Black Iron Railing

August 16, 2010

Black Iron Railing There are coffee colored cracks In the plastic cup That I lift As I look At the pine tree that didn’t take It died in the hole As did the five others I planted that summer That you left. There are no chairs Just dirty beige walls That resist decoration Every finger […]

My Sins Have Left Me

August 15, 2010

My Sins Have Left Me My sins have left me Deserted me cold The pounding drain pipe The aching bed That once loosed The apocalyptic horses Hoses turned on full Spraying every innocent In sight or sound Has bought a bar In Terlingua My anger is shrinking Like a bruised lily Slowly bowing In a […]

Poem for a Butthead

August 14, 2010

Poem for a Butthead I see that last night Is still stuck on you Like tar on a flip flop What happened sport? Your team lose? You swung on that guy The white blindness rising Like chopped waves in a storm Sucking everything out to sea Tumbling along as if gravity Has taken the hour […]

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