Vol : Writing

BACK TO GROUND

BACK TO GROUND

A Poem by Vol


I have said before:"my brain has a mind of its own," and I had no reason to lie. But there you werewith all that massconfusion pressed..
DURESS

DURESS

A Poem by Vol


DURESS I worry sometimes.Like this morning when the sun came upand I went for a stroll to watch it happen. It was calm after yester..
TEMPORARY BLINDNESS

TEMPORARY BLINDNESS

A Poem by Vol


I tapped some dottle into the ashtray, scratched the stubble on my neck. and looked again at the couple over there. She laughed at somethi..
DOOR

DOOR

A Poem by Vol


There is a door that opens just for me it gives no hint of the bright red dragon on the other side her heart pumping an incessant th..
DON'T FENCE ME IN

DON'T FENCE ME IN

A Poem by Vol


On the edge of town, here on my stretch of Rt. 66, the world is big, and empty. It rolls south across the Llano Estacado toward the Pa..
DON'T BLINK

DON'T BLINK

A Poem by Vol


Everyone talks about the road, the path, the river, and the journey, as though it is a thing, whole and complete.They are ..
DOING LAUNDRY

DOING LAUNDRY

A Poem by Vol


I’ve made the ride to the mountains more than once now, loaded with stuff to sleep in, eat, something to read, and this book to writ..
DIXIE

DIXIE

A Poem by Vol


The memory haunts me now...riding north out of Memphis in the back seat of a ‘50s Pontiac, windows down on the way to my grandfather's f..
RENOIR AS SADE

RENOIR AS SADE

A Poem by Vol


It doesn’t bother me to get my fancy tickled. Why should it? I mean, that’s what it’s for! Like the hour I sp..
BIG CITY, LITTLE TALE

BIG CITY, LITTLE TALE

A Poem by Vol


I lounged in a chair by the barfinding a perverted peace in a collection of Flannery O'Conner'sevil point of view when three newbies bounce..