Wednesday, December 11, 2024

In This Grave Lies Alvin P. Smith, Not Yet Six Years of Age By John Doyle


A carnivorous wind greets your long-gone lips


which leave time behind,


so I'll clasp sound from stone


which speaks of things like German measles, rubella, stray bulls,


perhaps a bullet unfortunate not to make its target of soda pop bottles 


on fence posts instead


which look on railroad tracks that go to that city your brother


says he'll make his fortune in, 


now it's his turn to make mom and pop proud





Half man, half creature of very odd habit, John Doyle dabbles in poetry when other forms of alchemy and whatnot just don't meet his creative needs. From County Kildare in Ireland, he is (let's just politely say) closer to 50 than 21.


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In This Grave Lies Alvin P. Smith, Not Yet Six Years of Age By John Doyle

A carnivorous wind greets your long-gone lips which leave time behind, so I'll clasp sound from stone which speaks of things like German...