W. Barrett Munn : Writing

Final Flight of a Dead Bird

Final Flight of a Dead Bird

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** For many years I mistakenly believed birds had some kind of built-in inner sonar that bounced off car hoods and automatically ..
(A-41)  Dreams Left on a Distant Horizon

(A-41) Dreams Left on a Distant Horizon

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


The (A-41) is not part of the title: just my personal numbering system to help locate individual poems later on this site, divided into groups of 10. ..
Unnatural Causes

Unnatural Causes

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** First thing every morning I read a news feed delivered to my phone by pixels, news that somewhere someone ..
A Little History

A Little History

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** If you had been hated and hunted your whole life what would you do what would you do what would you dowhat ..
Crystal Bridges

Crystal Bridges

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


A haibun.
Torpedoed While Flying High

Torpedoed While Flying High

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Polariswas the name of a nuclear sub;but our Polaris was a Dodge, big as a sub with torpedo-looking fins on eithe..
Jessup....Texas

Jessup....Texas

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Arms and legs won't lay like that unless it's a marionette and who'll be the voice of this poor child lying there in the g..
What I Know

What I Know

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Write what you knowI know Wise advice Trouble is I am ordinary and it’s the ordinary I know Chaos of traffic a..
Insemination

Insemination

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** I've reached the point where I wonder what I am; my genitalia say one thing; my abilities quite another. Of w..
A World of Spoons Apart

A World of Spoons Apart

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


The voice of the poem is Cajun.