Mint Julep. by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

drinks

beside you

in an old prom dress

split at the seams

from a highball

glass of volcanic

activity

and you can

smell the lazy

bourbon on her

breath

the way the shaved ice

crowds the lip

climbing up out of

the glass

like a barrel of

monkeys

at half past ten

in the

morning.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage.  His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, The Rye Whiskey Review, Outlaw Poetry Network, Horror Sleaze Trash, The Dope Fiend Daily and In Between Hangovers.