With us today is poet Lance Sheridan. Here is a little taste of his poetry and his views on tough love.
Of red barns and
canal water
she sat in a red
barn, on the velvet sofa,
quite comfortable
in her
forgotten world
wiped the
perspiration from the nape of
her neck
sipped the sweet
tea like she sipped
a kiss
her legs went from
here to there and back
again, waited for
her lover
looked out the
awning covered window,
a beautiful face
reflected
on the still water,
ran deep, like her
emotions;
the canal had an
appetite for quietness,
preferred it, a vow
of silence
cigarette ash fell
onto a hand-sewn rug
like soot on an
english roof
her impatience
grew;
he sold postcards
and slides,
had weekends off,
didn't impress her
he had postcards of
the same red barn,
next to a serene
canal
his relationship
with her was anything but;
if he flipped them,
animation appeared,
could see her
looking
out the window
she had the
attitude of wild dogs running
on tin roof tops
never let the
breeze in,
was afraid it would
extinguish
her cigarette
ashes tattooed the
hand-sewn rug
like carneys got
tattooed
backs of the
postcards were all
addressed to him
she spelled out her
anxieties like a
long range weather
report
sold all of them to
a blind man with a
tin cup and a tin
seeing eye dog
bought the
pencils...
Copyright ©
04/01/2013 Ðark Ṝoasted Ƣoetry®.
Of
love and suspicion
she
pulled paper off of elm bark and cut out
characters
with dull scissors,
pressed
them into old scrapbooks with white
paste
and the corner of a smile
she
took pieces of a puzzle out of a cardboard
cupboard
where paint chipped
and
cracked dishes held onto forgotten suppers;
had
a hound dog that could smell a funeral
a
mile away,
scent
came up through porch boards and wet
sawdust
black
ants come crawling out of woodwork
looking
for leftovers
scraped
into trash cans with dirty newspapers;
jealous
boyfriend next door every time she
sat
on rope and board to swing,
wearing
her low cut red dress and wiping off
humid
air with
a
soft, wet, damp sponge,
young
men cruis’n by in white walls, d.a.’s
and
wolf calls
she
eats it up with a silver spoon and glued
on
lashes;
walks
into the house moving like her hips
are
on springs,
she’s
running on full oxygen,
he,
just trying to breathe
opens
up an appliance for cold milk
and
satisfaction,
a
shot fired
travels
through white in a glass,
travels
through
a
life,
bone
she
clocks out like 24 chapters in an
unfinished
book,
her
body, flying puzzle pieces that
scatter
into blue darkness
he
tucks death into his pocket, opens
cautiously
a
screen
door where police lights pry
into
furniture and
eyes
in grandparent faces hiding behind
glass
walls
‘rounds
exchanged,
the
boyfriend keels
over,
hits
porch boards like slow nails and
a
hot sun
had
a hound dog that could smell a
funeral
a mile away …
Copyright
© 06/09/2013 Ðark Ṝoasted Ƣoetry®.
Poet Bio
Lance
Sheridan began Ðark Ṝoasted Ƣoetry® in January of 2013. Since then, he has had
thirteen poems published to date. His works have been accepted into the
following journals—
Napalm and Novacain, Storm Cycle, Jellyfish Whispers, Pyrokinection, Poised in Flight and Point Mass.What other poets are saying about his writing—
“This is a sort of writing which deliberately flouts grammatical structure and any form of restriction. It is not words. It is more music you relax to, curl up listening with an abstract ear."
“A readers paradise is exactly what your poetry is about.”
“You are so clever in bringing out the story in lines that compel the reader to ride the rail to the end."
"How the hell do you do this to us with words Lance?... I think we must link with your soul for these fleeting seconds... "
“For my writer and reader friends, please take a moment to read Poet Lance Sheridan. I was hooked by the very first poem. There is no “hierarchy stance” in his work or his attitude. Beautifully unlimited in imagination and wisdom, the combination pushed me back to shore after my canoe capsized. When a poet can offer hands YOU are a gift to this planet, Lance. Heaven would cry if you refused to write.” - Lynnie Bat-Abba/Poet
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