Rooster May Crow
The impulse hit me like remembering something you forgot when you’re already on the highway. Like forgetting to take your own pillow when you go far away, else when you arrive, you can’t get comfortable, resting your head on the memory of something you forgot. I wanted babies bad. Imagining myself a father, I became […]
FOURTH OF JULY—An American Garden of Fire
Gunpowder flowers bloom after dark, Flaming roses, black-eyed susan’s of yellow sparks, white lightning orchids, blue hydrangeas of flame, GUNPOWDER FLOWERS ABLAZE Star spangled marathon of ornamental explosions, GUNPOWDER FLOWERS BLOOMING FOR HOURS OH SAY CAN YOU SEE BY THE BUTANE FLAME OF YOUR CIGARET LIGHTER THE FUSE OF A GUNPOWDER FLOWER? LIGHT IT AND […]