Gordon Purkis : Writing

Tiny bits of hell

Tiny bits of hell

A Poem by Gordon Purkis


I’m riddled with tiny bits of hell like sidewalk graffiti sacred and profane messages like TITS and SATAN WAS HERE be/cuz hurt is a p..
The yesterday

The yesterday

A Poem by Gordon Purkis


I don’t know how to tell you this so I’m just going to say it: no, we didn’t really survive the past. Rather we died on nights..
Presence/Absence

Presence/Absence

A Poem by Gordon Purkis


I’d like just once to make love and not have you watching me Like to make love without the thought of possessing or not possessing you ..
Bare

Bare

A Poem by Gordon Purkis


This is one of those ones where you dance all around what you want to say but alas there are no words...
Water washes slowly over the dying man

Water washes slowly over the dying man

A Poem by Gordon Purkis


Is now any different than always or forever? Isn’t worry basically saying you’re concerned about everything? As if the world owed yo..
Burning day

Burning day

A Poem by Gordon Purkis


Folks with time to burn tree limbs and brush to burn A gray horse blanket kind of day To all appearances cold, yet life still burns, a m..