Vol : Writing

BETRAYED

BETRAYED

A Poem by Vol


The sun opens his mouth and speaks with salt words scorched from the sea and has not yet said all he knows about that. He speaks ..
BARBARA JEAN

BARBARA JEAN

A Poem by Vol


Sometimes at the edge of the pastureunder the forest eaves, the soft greens of spring slide through my eyesand paint the curves and shadows of ..
AUTUMN

AUTUMN

A Poem by Vol


There are leaves and dead limbs at my feet. I can see my feet… They are mine aren’t they? We have come all this way, slogged t..
ARTS DECOTATIFS

ARTS DECOTATIFS

A Poem by Vol


I envy those folks who lived when Flappers flapped and Jazz had just learned to Jive. They were there for Art Deco, whose smooth ele..
AT THE CORE

AT THE CORE

A Poem by Vol


In the hot spring, when the sap rises to make blooms open their golden thighs for the dry juice of pollen carried on the tongues of..
AMARILLO

AMARILLO

A Poem by Vol


AMARILLO At six o’clock the road turned bare as we rode through Tennessee. From Nashville to Memphis is a long, dark stretch of ..
BALM

BALM

A Poem by Vol


When we were young and smooth we did the things required of us to cut our network of brainways, the paths our thoughts would forever follow..
AT LAST

AT LAST

A Poem by Vol


AT LAST On my veranda I watch beads of sweat slide down the glass of ale I use to get over something I’m not sure of, perhap..
APPEARANCE

APPEARANCE

A Poem by Vol


It was just another day. The heat was as thick as the cloud of dust my car kicked up on the dirt road to my friend’s house, an oasis ..
ANXIETY

ANXIETY

A Poem by Vol


By the goldfish pond at the end of the walk, a spider builds a snare for thirsty prey in the overhanging sage and rosemary, a dead..