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Laurel Jenkins-Crowe  (email)

 

About the Poet:

Laurel's poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast and online at Tattoo Highway.

 

 

Riddle

 

It dreams of Christmas wreaths

hung on tombstones

It sings of blue jeans folded

over  a power line

It believes in Safe Arrival

brand lettuce

It is lonely for shoulders

 

It has faith its life is unfolding

according to plan

It knows why the blind

are careful how they laugh

It hides in a proper name

but not in yours

It looks like Mexico

 

It thinks it would like to learn

a new language

It hopes the internal combustion

engine will fail

It struggles against the temptation

to ennui

It sleeps where it falls

 

and wakes to new worlds having

the dust

beaten out of them

 

(A saddle blanket)

 

 

tryst

 

meet me at three-thirty-six

at the misperceptions of venus seminar

i'll be the one reading a book entitled

life on a cool plastic ice floe

we were told to wear photographs

but wear cabbage instead

 

i love cabbage on a man

 

 

bartender

 

closest he got to writing poetry

was slipping gingko leaves

into drinks that called for

paper umbrellas

 

 

random

 

i knew a guy had a poodle called

random

one day i asked him

whatever happened to that poodle

called random and

he told me he had no idea

 

 

popcorn

 

is what two people eat

together when

there is a thing between them

that won't be said.

They

lick the salt

from bowl

and fingers of yellow stoneware

and

while the bowl

is being washed, pretend

the thing

has been said.