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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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JASON KELLY RICHARDS
Through The Fields Of A Former Life I search for where I lost myself In the center of the clutter My past forms a tight circle Consisting of tunnels extending Long in range before total collapse Against the strain of achievement Cinematic in tone Days without color File beyond the graveyards Of regret until truth no longer Supports the weight of wings And the excursion between echoes Inform me that the best is behind But as usual I refuse to listen Clueless Her words are winter Containing more shadows Than an old man's memory Years young And at best examined Against a gray background Approach methodical Animated with questions Divided by why and when Intensions spaced sporadically Among the eve of important occasions Altered in range Adjusted by accusations And an endless environment Unaware that sometimes All stands in silence Because nothing Should be said. Every Waking Moment Before the sunlight illuminates the windows She crawls into bed beside me Behind the roar of my razor She sings off key with the radio On my way to work she stands on every corner In a different dress and matching shoes At the café she's wedged behind a newspaper Sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes After work at the bus stop she hides her eyes Behind dark glasses her nose with a book At the bar she laughs with two three-piece suitors Who pay her compliments and her tab Beneath a street light in a parked car She kisses a stranger as I stumble past Inside my door I drain the bottle And heave it toward her hitting the wall Until dawn Please take my eyes Jason Kelly Richards was born in Kentucky in a classic year for Chevolets, raised in North Carolina during the best decade of music and is currently planning his escape from Florida because the pay sucks and the humidity is absurd. His work has appeared in Pearl, The Chiron Review and others including The Ever-Dancing Muse plus online at ThunderSandwich, Red Booth Review, AntiMuse, PoetsCanvas, 63Channels, Miller's Pond and forthcoming at The Indite Circle. |
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