JR : Writing

Cheap Magic Trick

Cheap Magic Trick

A Poem by JR


Hey, do you remember when we first met her… doesn’t matter, never happened she ran her fingers so soft… doesn’t mat..
Exchange Rate

Exchange Rate

A Poem by JR


Jays are the prettiest birds around the house their feathers the color of morning sky they used to pay 25 cents a head up at the cherry orch..
Like A Beast

Like A Beast

A Poem by JR


Loneliness breathes like a beast its sides rise and fall, in fits and starts it breathes in the dark, in and out it breeds on itself, auto-e..
Paper and Pens

Paper and Pens

A Poem by JR


Her feet once so light upon the stair she never wore slippers, didn’t believe in them so her flattening white arches would run gentle a..
Machine Stitching

Machine Stitching

A Poem by JR


Looking out over hills it’s as though a soft blanket has been laid over the earth and in the low places the houses hump up in ordered r..
Hammered

Hammered

A Poem by JR


I wonder if the blade ever remembers that once it was raw metal and was hammered and hammered and hammered.
Grinder

Grinder

A Poem by JR


They call it “headspace” they call it “state of mind” but all I can think of is that long piece of metal I tried to s..
Anything Without Air

Anything Without Air

A Poem by JR


(anything without air) they press in the sides fold the plastic like a clamshell (anything without air) they use heat to seal the edges..
Sickness

Sickness

A Poem by JR


Outside, early morning just before dawn I set my coffee cup down on the ground beside me and a single long strand of a weed pokes down into t..
Manzanita

Manzanita

A Poem by JR


There’s this dead branch poking from the manzanita tree out back, long and dusty and gray where the rest is deep and red I know I shou..