Look For Me Under Your Boot-Soles
Was it where they lost me that I found myself? —Neruda My mother looks for me in photographs affixed in books—held by a hospital blanket, potato arms at the screaming melon of my face. She turns the...
View ArticleGaylord Brewer
Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits the journal, Poems & Plays. He has published four collections of poetry: Presently A Beast (1996),...
View ArticleApologia to Every Woman I Ever Wanted
Impossible. Sacrament of failure. Received, no doubt, as it ever was and ever shall be. Yet this morning, bowed to a new week, I feel that I might offer some token. Acknowledge, perhaps, your...
View ArticleApologia to the Son of a Bitch who Stole My Sandals on the Beach
By the time a wrinkled woman kicked sand at me beside the spot and a man offered his flashlight with advice “You can’t leave anything,” I was shaking my head. Besides, I didn’t trust them, by then...
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