Poems

will it snow tonight it will snow tonight

hefty construction paper flakes
multi-colored cut up

what is frostbite these days
we have central heat and air

in arkansas we stay up late into the night
at the windowmirrorwall

my hometown is buried
in white stuff

a woman nude
painting angels in the front yard

(what is frostbite)
i have taken off my socks

will it snow tonight
it will snow tonight

there are leaf piles loitering
on the lawn

i do not see them
do not want to see them

if winter drifted in and slept
upon my porch before the door

i would rest the day
i would rest all of the day

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four fingers

whiskey please.
the lilypad barstools are floating in deep.

a woman checks her compact,
gertrude was her mother’s name she changed
to jessica, this is a ghost, she has pristine
self-manicure hands, by the window the
red leech of brake lights behind her pane.

she doesn’t look at me because
i know her. she knows me.

about his arm the keep drapes a cloth about.

i bite my thumb
at the splenda’d well-dressed suit
drinking an iced tea.
he thinks a cow licked me
on the top of the head.

she thinks i have come with mismatched socks.
keep the cloth about.

i cannot bear to touch a cow.
everyone is sizing
me up.

i am small because i see you.
i dwindle my thumbs.