Overread at Table 1: A Triad

MR says, "I gotsum three pomes here, whathaveya -  still working my way through Janero, and I puttum all together tho' and when I re-read'em I thought 'boy, wonder what I was thinkin'uv!?'  (insert 'hehhehheh' here."



POEMS FOR SONGS OF THE DAY

January 14th, 2013

2013-0114

Song:
Slaid Cleaves
Broke Down

 

Poem:

Windowsill, half-cracked open, and outside:the big’ol 18 wheelers
rolling, rolling by, criss-crossing all of America, interconnecting at
this focal point: a motel room with a broken AC and a bed of crumpled sheets.

 

 
January 15th, 2013

2013-0115

Marisa Monte
Ensaboa

Poem:

a touch of mold on the bottom of the shower curtain
froth-tinged water flows through the cracks in the tile to the drain,
a hand, not her own, smooths a bar of soap down her infinite valley.

 

January 16th, 2013

2013-0116

Ray Charles
I Got a Woman

Poem:

A plaid apron, now tossed against the corner of the kitchen,
the screen door latch hooked neatly inside the circulet,
Potatoes left boiling in the forgotten cooking pot.