JR : Writing

Ain't Enough

Ain't Enough

A Poem by JR


There ain’t enough beer in here to take it awaynot enough drink in this whole bar to drown itno, it waits there, under the stooldown around y..
In The Blind

In The Blind

A Poem by JR


“This is really about self-confidence, boy. Ain’t nothing but believing in yourself. Trust that you’ve done the work. Trust you sp..
Thresher

Thresher

A Poem by JR


I stand at the threshold to the thresher my fingers have coated with ash mind runs on oil gone bad turned black heart like leather, creased a..
Fathomless

Fathomless

A Poem by JR


The ocean is fathomless and cold but I am like the rain, chattering and stumbling down from above the ocean is fathomless and cold but I ..
Eighty Nine

Eighty Nine

A Poem by JR


I have old memories of driving into Tahoe as a kid, and there’s this part of the road where I seem to recall us straddling the mountain. On on..
Lingo

Lingo

A Poem by JR


“Them girls always say they want a nice guy, but they don’t, man. They want an a*****e, someone with a complicated history and an arrest..
Careful

Careful

A Poem by JR


“You don’t care about nothing,” you said still looking for your underwear I see it, I see it there on the floor, at the ..
Growler

Growler

A Poem by JR


“It was kinda like I became a bird, one of them big ones, but powerful, an eagle or somethin’,” he said, settling himself on the c..
Spit

Spit

A Poem by JR


It’s my soul you swallowed, Valentina not the skin of my lips nor the flesh of my tongue not the stone of my insistent thrust nor my..
Pacific and Sacramento 6:43 A.M.

Pacific and Sacramento 6:43 A.M.

A Poem by JR


Oh my boy, you say the devil is trickyyou say he directs my wandering eyeand twists the good of my mindyou say he makes straight ether andcoughs up ch..