issue
#4 / spring-summer 2008
narrative and visual brain food
Go,
Literature!
Every Day I Wake Up on Tangled Sheets
Thinking about
Mortality
I change gray socks
while watching
water drip from eternity’s
swamp cooler.
I pull black T-shirt
over clammy pits
smothering
senses
like croutons in onion soup.
I adjust button down
collar
of convention
Mercury rises
in a dime store thermometer.
I zip
black polyester pants
over middle-age waist
to nattering A.M. radio
talk
jock of doom.
I slip into faded loafers
on regret’s slippery floor
while ceiling fans
blade past my neck.
Blue Sunset
Jet condensation
fanning over my home.
Sunset
lighting
Laurel Canyon Boulevard
like blue water heater
pilot flame
Travelers
cruise
on turbine power,
as I follow a red light parade
to the San
Fernando Valley.
poetry:
copyright 2008 J. Garcia
visual art: copyright 2008 J. Sarteschi
