Poems
by Terry Brinkman
Tobacco Fibers
Famine said over her shoulder
Murmured under her voice
Old fogey
Blooded guts of monkey slush
Tobacco fibers under lip
Brief gestures over bear shoulder
Brogues famine lost her pain
Pious immortal mud splashed bane
Black north whining whistle around the bend
Bend-Oregon Old mans stare
Sonnet CCII
Midnight my time for walking between the path of brick
Rhythm from over the sand furrows of the sun
Woven silk fox fond tweed on a skeleton
American hiking society legendary Walking Stick
White flint glass Biscuit Tin holding Arsenic
Alabaster silent foaming Ale simpleton
Ivory raised point green silk phenomenon
Vague loneliness of the soul doing arithmetic
Perfectly true nobbling her beer high
Far ravines fragrance of the Cedar Palace
Speer pointed mescal brooding silence to horrify
Beckoning range whispered her name Alice
Deep Velvet azure of the Blue-Berry Pie
Last swig of the pint in my Chalice
Sonnet CCIV
Sheep-herders thorough breeds sleeping straw
Laughed merrily straddling her Cadillac
Rude wooden shutters gruffly clacks
Ghastly plateaus of pine covered guffaws
Rock and Cactus See-Saw
Rocky ramparts wet hay stack
Slope of sage methadone racy Zodiac
Shes gracefully sleeping in healthful Awe
Blinding Zig-Zag of lightning flash
Star thrown shadows of her face
Others poignancy the bitter trash
Memories of her hauntingly sweet embrace
Silent scaled cheeks rash
Vague remorse of her grace
Sonnet CXXIV
Odoriferous flambeaus rising
Para nymph quadrupedal pitfall
Life ran very drawl
My Moon and my Sun harmonizing
Bitter-milk scrutinizing
Minot tag atrocities crawl
Sub-solar crystal water-fall
Egypts plague compromising
Long-straight Budapest
Coffee-House Nurse
Cavity of mountain suggest
Old Croaks purse
Black Crack infest
Topsy-turvy Hearse
NoHo daddy manifest
Natural phenomenon universe
Peer-to-Peer
Try peer-to-peer
Upward mobility
Portlands, Tillicum Crossing
Ghost Woman rocks out
Verge of the cliff
Pious, memory
Tournament of Roses
Mud-Splashed Waterfall
The joust of life
Drink Beer not Water
Next to the fireplace at Squatters
Purring, hearth sitting Sabastian cat
Madam serving beer wearing alabaster green hat
Drink beer not water
I meet-up here with my daughter
Argument turns up the thermostat
Like beer that seeps from a haunted ghost vat
Shes becomes my drinking contest spotter
Sleepy Whale 386
Wedded life to enter or not too
Saloons Chalk scrolled list in my room
Alabaster Dark Bride and Fair Groom
Ministers talks a Toads belly Kazoo
The fathers in-law one of those well-to-do
Wedding will be close to noon
Honeymoon will be on the moon
Red labeled Gin cash bar taboo
Temporary insanity of course
Dance with an endless pint drunk
I dance like a burr in the mane of a horse
A long legged silk stockings Monk
We all drink like the devil before the divorce
Next morning limp as a sleeping Skunk
Sonnet CCXXXXVIII
Girls will be Girls Playing music
Certain the castle of sand we are to jump
At the Electrical Power station dump
One square pole in a round a violent limerick
Her silk stockings in ruins makes one sick
Year of rebellion falling on her rump
Gazing far away sitting on a burned-out stump
Overhead Silk Umbrella with a golden stick
Furious volley of oaths never clever
Spiritual author of her brain
Gesticulating limb from limb server
Shot in a shovel drinking champagne
Kissed away hurt-ness forever and ever
Her unmentionables were full of sand again
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