Monday, January 3, 2022

sunday morning blues By Keith Pearson


grandma
wearing some man’s
slippers
and a worn brown
housecoat
ash hanging from
a Pall Mall cigarette
singing along with
Nina Simone
“my baby only loves me.”


Keith Pearson
I live in southern New Hampshire and works with special ed students at a local high school.


-

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

For The Mourner By Alec Solomita

For the mourner only one thing is: things like business, cooking, seeing birds stir the spring air, falling snow, even watching the home tea...

  • The Void by Daniel S. Irwin
    I write while I drink. Or drink while I write. It’s like entering a void To create from nothing. Wrestling in the mind. Will it come, will i...
  • Gozzlebeck’s By Terry Jude Miller
    near the on-ramp of I-10 in Crowley, Louisiana we unload our band equipment into the back of Gozzlebeck’s not the real name of the bar but a...
  • GRAVITATIONAL PULL by Scott C. Kaestner
    eat a shroom  smoke a joint sing a song read a poem try to think differently today than yesterday  evolve or deconstruct  not sure which one...