Jackknife Poems

Not Our Regular Drummer

...
Take a look who’s behind the kit,
he’s not our regular drummer;

Make no mistake he’s taken a life,
with that jackknife to a pounding heart;

So notorious, his beat’s ferocious.

He’s ransa...

black ice

...black ice is silent
unseen until its too late
red semis jackknife...

SNIPPY THE LITTLE DUCK

...Snippy was with
A family of five
Until he decided
To do a nosedive
In the water he went
Just shaking his tail
Swimming all around
Like he had set sail
But something took notice
Of this duck ...

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

...Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped a joyride 
                                to juicy jukebox jabber...

Poetic Paean To Papa's Princess

...Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,

whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially...

Smite Polite

...Wildlife cannot remain contained;
Life in a glass dome is so secure;
Strife lines the broken trail to success,
jackknife just to watch basic shatter;

Sunlight isn't gifted glitter like splinter...

Hold Onto My Hand Forever

...Through every spin and jackknife,
you peer into my soul's keyhole;
Far beyond this condensed life;

Written with stars onto my scroll,
our story long ago branded boundless;
You are my other hal...

Chintzy In Quincy

...A staid old art collector in Quincy
dotes on cats but with people is chintzy
He willed old shoes to his wife
and to his son a jackknife
His tabby got a Monet and Da Vinci

Written 2/13/22...

The Sweet Suffering I

...Leather boots 
tight black suits 
skin hot as hell 
Bone white skulls stare

At its heart
cutting sweet 
burns in between
Deep in a place 
for the pain

The sweet suffering 
feeling insan...

Ghost of Harriet Harris Doth Not Countenance Monetary Largesse

...After about fifty years as married wife
the last three fraught with strife
obvious telltale signs of terminal illness rife
hysterectomy irrevocably didst jackknife
at the least severely incapacit...

Mowed Down Field Day With Redacted Mueller Report

...Attorney General William
Barr black marker in hand
kept promise to censor vital
details of Mueller Report
swift as Usain Bolt candidly,
grandly, lustrously, roundly

youthfully blocked out mor...

Paper Weight

...You are rock and bone,
sturdy eyes and heavy leaden shoes
line up by the doorframe like splinters.
The wood is peeling, and the 
stairs cave beneath our feet in surrender.
My papa’s new wife wou...

Christmas Day

...I remember so well that Christmas date.
The year that things changed - I had just turned eight.
I was no longer a child in my view,
And I hoped Santa had seen that, too.
The time for toys and can...

Hoe Boys

...crazy steam whistle 
wakes me to a cooler ‘morn
blown loud 
moisture piercing
rock rock rockin'
on grease
on iron
on splintered sleepers 
creaking through 
frost blown meadows
do I jump?
d...

High Worship

...Above the lowly metro din,
we climb through earnest efforts
to slopes of grouse and goats.
Where skies brim pale and pure,
trails narrow, plummet, climb,
and jackknife over the granite jumble
of brok...

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