Family Nose Poems

Predation requires a flexible mindset
So flexible that it is concrete
Even your worst enemies,would like to become members
Ooh,my goodness,this thing called life
Be wise,when choosing friends
As they...

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We watch Martha dig out buckets of stuff
From a nose that always has more than enough
Globs of boogers, and moogers, then she takes a sneeze.
We...

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When I was a little girl,
Mother said to me
on my dad’s side there had been
a pure Cherokee.

I felt so proud that I had
in my ancestry
blood...

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Don't Look Down Your Nose
By Franklin Price
7/17/2016

Don't look down your nose at me
I'm just as good as you
I may not have the things you have
Or...

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Their unspoken opinions
are like a pot of unknowable, unnamed meats
including skunk parts
one morsel of filet mignon

Family or workplace
longer the hours, years of the living
opinions accumulate
perception...

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DRAWN    BY    THE    NOSE


In a twinkling
Warm kitchen baking smell carries me
Back small for a second ...

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Inside my nose lies my kind of treasure
Each dig brings no gold, but a lot of pleasure
Most times it's the right nostril that's clogged
With the...

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