JR : Writing

Around These Parts

Around These Parts

A Poem by JR


Wine sells cheap down at the corner liquor store but the girls around these parts want more than I can offer with my dimes and my devastat..
Plush Revisited

Plush Revisited

A Poem by JR


Ah California you are as plush as I rememberyour rolling hills and your silver slip of ground fogyour tea gardens, and your willful taxesyour sunglass..
Chelsea

Chelsea

A Poem by JR


Your fingers are so light but your slap so heavy, your wrist held straight and firm back arched slightly to take the weight of the strap ..
Water, And The Sky

Water, And The Sky

A Poem by JR


The diving board took her body, flexed and launched her over the lake in a gentle arc arms above her head, palms out, as she was taught Lycra..
Gin

Gin

A Poem by JR


He’s bound to fail, you know he’s run his ways under the sun and learned his words by rote in school, where they rapped him o..
TGTR

TGTR

A Poem by JR


Oh god I love the way you touch me you make me shiver forty-five minutes in… I am caught up in the sound in the heavy hip of you ..
Well Pump

Well Pump

A Poem by JR


My heart has become like an old well pump that flips on in fits and starts wheezing and coughing; When it’s on, though the water ..
Addie

Addie

A Poem by JR


I watched the light go out of your eyes held you close, to feel your wind slowing you didn’t shudder or shake, like you had you didn&rs..
Flu

Flu

A Poem by JR


I don’t want any white horse or his rider, or his rider’s bow but when things get boring I often wonder how I would hold up wi..
Sand Castle

Sand Castle

A Poem by JR


Any god that looks down on this mess would have to laugh at what he wrought through his careless hand these roughs edges that should smooth ..