JR : Writing

India Ink

India Ink

A Poem by JR


Blackbird stitched against white canvas of the morning sky like those I would sketch with India ink and the flat of a calligraphy pen in t..
Silk Sheets

Silk Sheets

A Poem by JR


All you people with your beautiful grins fall over me like silk sheets on my marital bed once did all you people with your empty promises ..
Magic

Magic

A Poem by JR


It was the cleverness of my mouth that brought you near and a magic trick that got me in the light weight of my fingers that pulled us clo..
Helicopter

Helicopter

A Poem by JR


Ninety four wind stirs his thin white hair and mimics the joy in his eyes as his wizened hand spins the tail rotor when he was young he&rsqu..
Bottom Of The Pool

Bottom Of The Pool

A Poem by JR


I’ve always felt kin to the water I love to live within its cool when I was young I would let myself sink to the bottom of the swimming..
Original

Original

A Poem by JR


I’m taking down all my fences nail-by-nail, board by board I’m bringing them low no need for them now, I plan to let the wild..
On The Rocks

On The Rocks

A Poem by JR


This day and the one before it ran like oil we sat behind that stilted house tonight and drank our whiskey with rocks ghosts, you said, it..
The Listener

The Listener

A Poem by JR


I don’t know what I expected to find here when I was a kid, I would construct images of you there among the rafters and in the fold of the..
Awful People

Awful People

A Poem by JR


He lay on the cedar floor planks gasping for air like a fish does for water she watched him from across the room filing the rough from he..
Rabbit

Rabbit

A Poem by JR


I sometimes catch your scent in the strangest places at the grocery store, when someone passes and leaves a little of you in their wake at th..