USouthAl Poets

How many crosses have I passed along the highway? Hardly noticed by me. Unforgettable to someone. What action caused its planting? Like a small white tree among the shrubs, No leaves on its limbs, Flowers tied to its base? Was it an accident caused by a drunk driver? Who swerved off the road late at [...]

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s old man Dug a grave in the woods For his old Amaryllis to lay. But amaryllis’ are only one type of flower, So where do the azaleas go when they die? Do camellias have some second home for the winter? Do they begin to pack unseen bags As their peddles wilt and [...]

Beautiful Parasite The doctors say you’re growing every day, working to fill the gap that makes me who I am. I must admit, despite the cause of you, I’ve grown attached.  But I cannot help but see you as an uninvited guest, stealing from my body to create your own. I swear I felt it [...]

Celestial Daydream Some nights I’d look toward the Sagittarius skies and picture a black hole devouring the Milky Way, asteroid vagrants marmalading across the stippled plain.  I could see it suck the bitter iron of jawbreaker planets, as they careened into its gaping mouth, the fiery spits of stifled suns and chalky moons sending a [...]

Ravish Me, Oh Lord I pluck your feathers out like clumps of stubborn milkweeds and smear them on your pallid face, wanting you to taste your own surrender, to feed upon what makes you what you are. I rip away your incandescent robe and watch you writhe beneath  my hands, bald wings flailing like zombie [...]