Phibby Venable : Writing

Where Are You?

Where Are You?

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Where Are You? I cannot stop thinking of clams, raw, and oysters, raw..and sex, laid out like gray pajamas waiting for the half shell to kick in..
Love Beats Me

Love Beats Me

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Love Beats Me Lovebeats meinto a universe of blue frost The lastsound is the dusk cry of a cricket, chauffeured in the bright droppings of a sho..
Cookies

Cookies

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Cookies My formal room without drapes or the disquise of conformity is a broad accusation of sullen discomfort.. My dog lolls there in need ..
Here

Here

A Poem by Phibby Venable


a nod to God.
Swinging in Dixie

Swinging in Dixie

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Swinging in Dixie On ayard swing withhard messages blowing backwards through my hair I cannot stop to examine my feet already plunging upwards a..
Night Moves

Night Moves

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Night Moves Iwatch aman with his hands in the waist band of a clean mattress, a man that crushes his cigarette into thestubb of a ..
Standing in Place

Standing in Place

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Standing in Place You have advised me to forget about the angels, leave the horses, drop the trains, but itmay be necessary to resurrect everythi..
Don't Ask Job

Don\'t Ask Job

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Don't Ask Job Jobfinds lilacs & pink roses growing in the desert Food falls from the sky if he mentions it The dung of his c..
How Am I Doing?

How Am I Doing?

A Poem by Phibby Venable


How Am I Doing? I am a small bud, nothing really flowering at the moment. In the pause of silence & dark In the metamorphosis of h..
Turtle Traps

Turtle Traps

A Poem by Phibby Venable


Turtle Traps ..what did I want to say? nothing. I want to finish thisline & I plan to gig out past High Rock Step over that! damn..it's a..