Poems
by Terry
Brinkman
Chalk Scrolled
Wedded life to enter Templer; Saloon’s Chalk scrolled list in my wife’s to be sleeping pod. Alabaster Dark Bride and Fair Groom Minister’s talking until he’s numb; a Toad’s belly taboo. The Father’s in-law one of those well-to-do; wedding will be too close to noon’s football game; Honeymoon will be on the moon. Wedding guest Red Labeled Gin cash bar should be taboo. Temporary insanity day of course. Dance with a left-handed endless pint drunk dancing like a burr, in the mane of a horse. Mrs.’s long-legged silk stockings left on the kitchen floor. Monk We all drink like the devil before the day before; The next morning limp as a sleeping Skunk. Gun-whale of her dad’s boat stuck in the mud after the wedding last fall. New wife Seith without compromising; Not smelling fresh rag paper from Budapest Honeymoon still a darkness in the brightness of the shadow laying under her. Purse Bristles shining wirily infester hat was left on the floor of the Wedding-Hearse
In the Distance
Pink articulated lips peacefully absurd
Meadow of murmuring hot spring lightly crept
Phenomenologist arguments hard to accept
Telegraph pole lonely sitting Blackbird
Sun in eyes northwest flight of a Bluebird
Turned back moist sheets as she slept
Hey-pots rainspouts well silent kept
Drum band flight of Ladybird
Long Bow waving archery
Girl Scouts Cookie baker
Plutocratic order of precedence flakey
Jazz Basketball game with the Lakers
Cloth of the estate chapter a little shaky
Final dress of the dressmaker
Dad’s Boat
I left dad’s boat stuck in the mud last fall
Ocean bowels Liver Patie
Smelling glue on the back of stamps from Budapest
Life’s darkness in the brightness of the nurse
Blood Moon’s shadow lay over her
Old Man’s bristles shining wirily
Her hat was left on the floor of the outhouse
Olivet’s Weed
Snot green Olivet’s Weed
Tide sheeting of the sand wedge
Death pew’s ledge
Two on the matter of greed
Clambering down the foot path with speed
Sent of urine on her hedge
She slid the verge of the cliff’s edge
Skiing Miss Swede
Ineluctable spider’s Web
Early morning eight legs silently crept
Death’s ashes on Deb
Cough-balls of laughter trying to sleep
Costly dishonors of ebb
Silted sand in Ruddy Wool Sheep
Type-writer Royal
Cheap reprints Type-writer Royal
Saints and Sages of man
Neighbor kicking scaring can
Wolf not sheep’s loyal
Guardians and monies broil
The holy youth of Dan
Millstones of Unicorn’s plan
Observant bearing palms oil
Arching spires blessed God
Ancient Irish vellum tries
Viands and beverages awed
Sweet and gradual vaults arise sky
Tickets available in sun Izadi
Time for Walking
Sunup time for walking between the path of brick
Rhythm furrows of the sun
Woven silk skeleton
Terry’s legendary Walking Stick
White flint glass Arsenic
Alabaster silent simpleton
Ivory raised silk phenomenon
Vague loneliness of Math-Class doing arithmetic
Perfectly true nobbling her beer knee-high
Ravine’s fragrance over the Cedar Palace
Brooding silence horrifies
Beckoning wind whispered her name Alice
Sour Whipping Cream Pie
Last swig of the pint in my Chalice
