LOOKING AT A PHOTOGRAPH FROM WAR TIME…
There is the one with his boot sole propped on a frame of sandbags, and the one holding a baseball […]
There is the one with his boot sole propped on a frame of sandbags, and the one holding a baseball […]
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
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