JR : Writing

Recovery

Recovery

A Poem by JR


He drank the silence in let it run down his throat like water, poured over his tongue and toes cool in the canals of his veins, he let ..
Hunting Hornets

Hunting Hornets

A Poem by JR


Once I found a huge hornet’s nest in a tree in front of my house on Hibiscus easily as large as my head and those black and yellow b**..
Now Gray

Now Gray

A Poem by JR


When he was young they sat in the dirt by the side of the lake and he played her songs he’d written on guitar primarily in the key of A..
Pink

Pink

A Poem by JR


They prescribed me these little pink pills for my problems and now I swallow them, two at a time they actually do what they are supposed ..
Spinner

Spinner

A Poem by JR


You little m**********r I just knocked down your webs yesterday and now they are back; I saw you, I was kind enough to let you live ..
Snow Driver

Snow Driver

A Poem by JR


The first time I drove in the snow I thought I was going to die. I had no idea how the rules change, how quickly things can shift underneath you; I ..
Skinwalker

Skinwalker

A Poem by JR


There are places where the world grows thin, paradigms gather in puddles in the box canyons that pour forth from the Uintas where the sk..
The Bookmaker

The Bookmaker

A Poem by JR


He put it all down in books, he loved the smell of ink and its stain the permanence of the black stuttered over the white he got high on b..
Four Winds

Four Winds

A Poem by JR


Where goes the wind when it pulls up its stakes and leaves me? what other scalp will it run its long fingers through? what ear will tak..
Little Windows

Little Windows

A Poem by JR


There’s something about the glow of all those little lights in windows, night has wrapped all those squat houses with her skirt I wo..