Sample Poems:

juke joints: places landy and i have been

i’ve met rhythm-lovers and blues livers:
women and men in holes in walls
some in redone mobile homes where wood
thumps as music nuzzles on swollen chests
pricked by needles on records that hit
upon cheatin’ and love makin’ tender days
causin’ some to piss/vomit their clothes



my great grandfather

i found a set of cuff links
in the pulled drawer of a dresser:
daddy ross wore them some decades ago
when his slender arms slowly slid across
worn wood tabled where deacons would pray
knees bent and bodies bowed at church
when cards were not allowed on sunday