April
copyright 2019 Michael Walker
Dots her I's with tiny hearts
In letters on yellow stationary...
This was romance at first but now
It's not
And I have to kiss her so
She doesn't write so much...
This was ROMANCE at first
But now
It's just a BORE
Watching her do flag corps routines
With her dummy rifle
Watching her come down in Dr. Dentons...
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Eden
copyright 2019 by Michael Walker
I remember that there was a river
And grasses that the animals
Would part to drink
I remember the cool rivulets of fruit
Dripping from my chin
The fruit always within reach
No gardener named hunger...
I remember hummingbirds
Appearing like angels
Quivering before my eyes
Like heat.
13
copyright 2019 by Michael Walker
We found these dirty pictures
In the woods, behind the doctor's office
Censored by the rain
And cigarette burns
And we snuck them into your
Grandmother's house
Where later, by the TV's blue light
We spread them out
Like pieces of a puzzle...
What could it mean
We tacitly asked
Sitting close together on the sleeping bag.
Is this...
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The Missouri Review sent me the friendliest rejection letter I have ever received as an author. They said that, though they were not going to publish my story, they really enjoyed reading, loved my original approach, and would really like to see more of my writing. The Missouri Review is a big deal and they pay really well for stories and poetry. So yeah. A...
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A Poor Wolf’s Poem
copyright 2019 Michael S. Walker
I wish my teeth were bigger
The better to eat you with
My eyes are pretty big right now
The better to see you with
But seeing isn’t the same as eating
And that reminds me of the painter Soutine, of course
He spent his whole life
A serial painter of sides of beef
He was...
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An Approximation
copyright 2019 by Michael Walker
Look, I haven't seen this dream in awhile
This girl I met at a party
35 years ago
I keep going through the motions
Waiting
As Delmore Schwartz once said
"In grinding misery for the fountains of poetry
To flow again."
I light candles and carry them
Across the decline of the tungsten filament
I breathe in silence...
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