Maxwell Ryder : Writing

Pangaea

Pangaea

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


If bullet casings had built bridges, we’d have glued continents rifted by war, and walked to our brothers.
Graveyard floor

Graveyard floor

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


A blackbird trawls the graveyard floor, after a summer downpour, hopping from mound to mound, spearing the worms whose ancestors once fed on th..
A portrait

A portrait

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


Poems find cracks in the sidewalk and spring to life; chaste and youthful just long enough to sit for a portrait in my journal.
Yellow Orchid

Yellow Orchid

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


a yellow orchid in the WC, perched uncertainly on the parapet, between tissue and sink, watered by glass beads; a bridge grafittied: "I need sw..
Dollar Store Courage

Dollar Store Courage

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


A clerk Gets high On weed; Bible’s Opened To First Corinthians. The thief Comes in, Points His gun, and Demands the cash; She ca..
Go pound sand

Go pound sand

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


I feel my body Trying to kick My soul To the streets, And go rest Eternally In the ground; My psyche Has to tell it, Go pound sand.
Sunken grave

Sunken grave

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


What’s sadder than a grave, But a sunken grave? Than one that’s nameless, Unmarked, or even defaced By time and space? I walk by the ..
Mayflies in April

Mayflies in April

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


Mayflies in April, June bugs in May I never thought I’d live to see the day Frogs were so happy For global warming, And earlybird buffets.
God Save the Queen

God Save the Queen

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


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Lestat’s jugular

Lestat’s jugular

A Poem by Maxwell Ryder


Eight ball cracks Her nose, spilling red On her jaw She stirs blood Into jack and coke, Quaffs it back Dreams of days She aroused Lestat&r..