Best Tailgated Poems

His hand is strafing the castellation on his trumpet, the valves moving up down up down like deranged pistons under the random machine gun fire of his fingers. Each note is a projectile that concusses the air, chases the one before it, nudges it from...

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Bouts of lightning flashes,swirls
And lightens up the pitch, black night
Of our neck of the woods
Tailgated by stealthy footsteps 
Of growling, grunting, moaning and roaring thunder,
As in gnashing and grinding of canine
As rain, like beads of sweat, acne and goose pimples
Break out on my forehead and...

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IJEOMA (Farewell)
In the wee hours
They sat down upstairs
At table
To a sumptuous 
Three course meal

Present at table were:
Morning, afternoon, evening,
The moon, the stars, night and darkness

Appetizer was served 
In the morning
Then,
Entree in the afternoon 
And dessert in the evening 
At night they shared
A glass of bitter...

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