JR : Writing

Fickle

Fickle

A Poem by JR


We rise like vapor slowly from the water Mirror Lake, in the High Uinta mountains in November with the silence of antecedent snow we have des..
Grape Hunters

Grape Hunters

A Poem by JR


I know where the grape hunters hide I have seen the heavy men, ring bangers weighed their women with my eyes the heft of their thick thighs ..
Smoking Bones

Smoking Bones

A Poem by JR


Two a.m., parked in a pasturesummer night with the skreeee of cricketsnew moon, the dark of the nightis a cloth laid over the fields, laid over uswe&r..
Counselors

Counselors

A Poem by JR


Edited an older poem, but I wanted to keep both copies.
Machine

Machine

A Poem by JR


I love the reassuring weight of you all of your clicks and clacks the smell of your oil, I keep my machine clean as a whistle because ever..
Werewolf

Werewolf

A Poem by JR


L’homme est un loup pour l’homme -Unknown, graffiti in Paris Why do they come at me with these claws? hooked nails better served..
Insomnia

Insomnia

A Poem by JR


All drained no stems no bones awash now in the puddle of the morning coffee on but mostly forgotten nothing but static mind, chattering; t..
Reading Lydia

Reading Lydia

A Poem by JR


I feel at a loss for myself, her works are so compact there isn’t a word wasted, each line can be judged by the weight of the line before ..
Now, Allen...

Now, Allen...

A Poem by JR


"the weight we carry / is love" - Song, Allen GinsbergI must fall down awhile under the weight of love become a puddle of self a bubbling mas..
So Wide

So Wide

A Poem by JR


I long to live inside the humI want to wing across the static atrophyI yearn to spread my armsso so wideand droplike a stone