Rattling(A) Poems - Poems about Rattling(A)

...It’s coming A Nor’easter they have held their finger up compared the spaghetti plots interviewed a guy with arthritis unfurled the flags sounded the alarm and we wait listening to the buoy ......

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...SNAKES IN RURAL PENNSYLVANIA The snakes in his head were timber rattlers, easily agitated, disinclined to fight, their rattling a warning to all before slipping away silently from conflict ......

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...I could hear my last thin dimes and pennies restlessly rattling a curse, Lying lost somewhere in the endlessly cruel lining of my knockoff purse Into which pens just disappear through some hole in......

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...My soles grate from cuts on bare feet eyes growing hazy, rattling a waif’s hum; and I freeze, quiver as night enfolds like pointed ice tearing a heart in scraps . A ruptured cry mirrors my ......

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...I loved those trees, limbs draped in plump wild grapes, bursting with flavor on my tongue, while juice stained my fingers. Tall cottonwoods shadowed the creek where we splashed—Sis, brot......

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...Sometimes my heart may seem to soften And I am glad Jill is not away too often Also sure like Gene my new neighbor A peaceful sort never rattling a sabre. Not soph......

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...I dress silently as if to leave by night only to sit at the kitchen table my mother's hands my own rattling a cigarette between my fingers. You wake to find me smoking in the damp heat of the n......

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