W. Barrett Munn : Writing

(A-108) Passion

(A-108) Passion

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Bittersweet this kiss of sweet entreat though tongues entangle and hearts are hurried. Passion is petulance, petulan..
Initiation Into the Men’s Friendship Club

Initiation Into the Men’s Friendship Club

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Friendship is a dangerous game played without protection, without the shield of invincibility men wear most of the time.The ..
Friendship Interruptus

Friendship Interruptus

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Leonard was my friend until he took a wife. Both of our lives changed. One of us not for the better. ..
Urges

Urges

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** She sits on the bed, naked, her small breasts bare and slack; to her, her breasts are part of herself; to him, they’re m..
Tsunami Warning

Tsunami Warning

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** I frequently listen to hear the sound of the ocean’s intentions, an arduous undertaking consuming time in gre..
Life Lived in the Now

Life Lived in the Now

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Your watch becomes redundant, a hunk of nothing ticking off what’s now meaningless. It’s always now,..
Meter

Meter

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** A sentence has a steady dogged heartbeat; the unsteady tasked to toil its steady beat. On all fours and chasing madly, two..
How to Spin a Top when Democracy in Modern Life is in Danger

How to Spin a Top when Democracy in Modern Life is..

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** The string is wound tight, tight, tight, and then you hurl it hard, one end of the string wrapped around a finger. ..
How to Grow a Potato

How to Grow a Potato

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** I could go swoon over the super blue moon but that takes so much energy, push up off the sofa, go from here to way ove..
Fly on a Wall

Fly on a Wall

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Bridge abutment sounds funny to a sixteen-year-old drunk because it has the word “butt” in it. It’s n..