Friday, January 23, 2026

Behind Historic Lines By Merritt Waldon


Deep a.m. six day old coffee

Rationed cigarettes & forbidden dreams

Skipping down rainy midwestern

Streets w broken down poets

Lost behind the times

Behind historic lines

Left forlorn against mom & pop

Storefronts

Serenading un-seeable futures

Feathered like crows

Like heckle and jeckle

Like a life remembered

In old cartoons




Merritt Waldon is Southern Indiana poet who has been published in Road Dawgz, Sun Poetic Times,

The Brooklyn Rail, Be About It Zine, River Dog #1, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Americans & others anthology fourth edition, Crisis Chronicles, Cajun Mutt Press, Thye Rye Whiskey Review, and Fearless!.

At midnight Christmas night 2020, cajun mutt press released Oracles from a Strange Fire by Ron Whitehead & Merritt. He lives in Austin, Indiana.

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Behind Historic Lines By Merritt Waldon

Deep a.m. six day old coffee Rationed cigarettes & forbidden dreams Skipping down rainy midwestern Streets w broken down poets Lost behi...