Timon and Pyrrho What’s a cotter pin?It ain’t no Fraggle. Gotta rock in my hand.What’s your skull sound like? You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #149: A Smack of Olives
Bindled Barely awake, dressedfrom the night before, dense fogsettles on my eyes and chest… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #147: Imagined Guests
Low Windows Cinnamon mornings,when my heart beats in paunchypentachord warnings… You can get the rest of the poem and playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #146: Low Windows
Soft SkillsWhat’s wrong with his teeth?Perfect Euclidean squaresthough rotten underneath… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #145: A Soul Like a Sheath
RebusThe book fell off the shelfand I saw your name on the pagein sentences written a century before. In the light late at night…. You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #144: A Bright, Wicked Light
Saltings Crawdaddy Emrickwas ladled and bathedin swamps and rhetoric.A life like a card trick… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #143: Saltings
The KissWhat more can a kissdo? Can it cure the insecure,securing wedded bliss?Are the half-parted lips… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #142: Kissed and Cured
Keeping Things Whorled He asked if I knew any enduring truthsand the only thing that came to mindwas that no truths were enduring.It wasn’t meant to be flippant or holier-than-thou, but how I moved through the worldor how the world moved through me…. You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at … Continue reading Musicalia #141: Keeping Things Whorled
In medias res Awake at two, and the old scarsstill buzz like rooms full of sitars. A twang in the ashes, brass knuckle radio,a hundred untuned Dixieland banjos. If it offends thee, then pluck it out…. You can get the whole poem and the playlist over at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #139: A Twang in the Ashes
Stephen McClurg 