Sonnets to Orpheus: Part 2 #13
Anticipate each goodbye, as if it were already behind you like a winter that’s passed. Because underneath these winters is […]
Anticipate each goodbye, as if it were already behind you like a winter that’s passed. Because underneath these winters is […]
Here they come, stumbling down the sidewalk two by two, masses of hammered college kids puked out of the bars on the Tennessee Street strip after last call. And it’s not the sight of them that gets to me as I stand in my boxer shorts watching their bumbling migration from the balcony of my apartment; it’s the sound as I’m yearning to sleep off the iron-legged stress of a hard-fought double at the restaurant, the fuck yous yelled at the top of smoked-through lungs, the punches itching to be thrown, revving up in the glamour boys’ well-exercised beer muscles, the shrill come-ons screaming from deep in the exposed chests of scores of girls who received
Review by Brian Spears WAKING STONE by Carole Simmons Oles The University of Arkansas Press 201 Ozark Avenue Fayetteville AR
Looking at them clustered together in their black robes, waiting for their names to be called, waiting to become more
When they come for you, digging in your breast-coat pockets, riffling your face with their stares, weeping over what the