W. Barrett Munn : Writing

Managing Risk

Managing Risk

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** I used to have a car until the sun ate it the same thing happened to my face and led me to replace short-sleeve shir..
The Rough Beast

The Rough Beast

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


(And what rough beast, waiting to be born,. slouches towards Bethlehem? W.B. Yeats) Gaza is not part of the heavens the falling ar..
Fortunate One

Fortunate One

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** I could deny it but why should I? Sure, I know them, I know those expensive words but I choose not to use them as I ..
The Scene of the Crime

The Scene of the Crime

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Aye, lad. It was the Finnie Whig standin' over the corpse big as you please It was the Finnie Whig what done it. Blimey w..
Gizzards

Gizzards

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** During the blizzard we ate gizzards for dinner necks and backs were leftover for snacks. When the snow ..
Formative Years

Formative Years

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** The heaven-oven was childhood bakeshops and blueberry-sugar lips. We were so young, just forming miles below t..
False Equivalence

False Equivalence

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Her eyes placed a crown as upon the fair head of a king as her lips bowed to shared passion a princess of pur..
(A-27)  Director's Cut

(A-27) Director's Cut

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Too far to fall back down back off engage. Too near align with might as right is wrong again. A river then a stream. A lak..
Halloween in Harlem

Halloween in Harlem

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** It is only as the nighthawk cries and when hare is in its hiding and wolf bane's slumber's been aroused by cavalcades of..
Worshiper

Worshiper

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** She always follows, always follows until she doesn't follow when after a squirrel or a rabbit that has ha..