W. Barrett Munn : Writing

Generational Talent

Generational Talent

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** I know I’m not a generational talent. I may never be. That’s the best part of writing - ..
Tomorrow Is the Song I Whistle When I Walk Past a Graveyard

Tomorrow Is the Song I Whistle When I Walk Past a ..

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** When he who rolls over in his grave is someone you knew, do you recognizethe sound?Does he make a rumblelike an earthquake,or m..
haiku 201

haiku 201

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


haiku
Movie Night Nine Months Before Me

Movie Night Nine Months Before Me

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** The theater darkens; mother snuggles deeper into the cloth-covered seat. Wafting buttered popcorn odors and the rattl..
Whistling Dixie Reprised

Whistling Dixie Reprised

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Blue whales. Gray wolves. Separated by the immensity of evolutionary forces. Binge watching gone wrong chemis..
(A-104) Lesson in Living Well

(A-104) Lesson in Living Well

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** In the middle of grinding the critter into mush beneath the heel of my boot, I was blinded by bright white..
haiku 197

haiku 197

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


haiku
It’s Fact

It’s Fact

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Whatever your opinion of Pluto as one of the planets, Plutodoesn’t care; Pluto will still be there doing its Pluto ..
The Trouble with Numbers

The Trouble with Numbers

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** I’ve yet to observe an orangutan make a last second bucket and lead his team to a win, or witness a walrus ru..
Birth of Banality

Birth of Banality

A Poem by W. Barrett Munn


*** Everything I write is banal, nothing but the lame old thing, unoriginal as a hooker in Times Square, sophomoric, like ..