POEMS

 

            come from Houston, Texas

where a man I date drinks

excessively, sleeps

with too many women, married

once, works in oil

painting realistic covers of matchbooks

at bars for tourists who ask him

to redden a bit more earth, their husbands

wait in the car, pushing buttons

on the radio, waves of music

rising up through their boots on the dash.

 

                                                Nadine Kachur

 

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