Best Icebox Poems

A seething summer morning in the oil boom trailer park
Oral Roberts on the radio with the gospel told by Mark
The reek of raw petroleum is everywhere around
We little oil trash urchins play marbles on the ground

He drives out here most every day around the hour...

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You stole a block of ice from the freezer
and you put me to bask in your sunlight.
The heat is melting me and you’re staring,
watching, waiting for me to disappear.
I made a pool of sweet water for you.
Its sparkle and scent invited you in.
You bathed in...

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Icebox Disaster
Only living son
Home from steamy jungles of New Guinea
Wearing strips of a Master Sergeant
Tales recounted from Australia – Sydney R & R –
In spear points and javelins;
Malaria still traced upon
A war tanned face;
No more holding breath -
Four years of halting steps -
Reaching for the...

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