Jeffrey SpahrSummers Poems

• Of Poems And People
  Never satisfied The whiners Always primping Looking in mirrors
• Watching Daddy Die
  Something weighs heavy on the man Lulled to sleep deep in the recliner. Something has cut his taut line And slashes age across his face
• Top This Television Moment
  you shouldve been there everybody else was at least it seemed in july
• Ser-En-Dip-I-Ty
  he begets poetry begets interest begets poets
• Courage
  It takes courage to admit defeat to lay the weapons down to declare oneself unarmed before anyone else gets hurt
• Poems
  every poem is an experiment for me every poem an experience i read every poem that i can
• Four Fifteen A.M.
  I am preparing chicken salad and while the meat cools in the colander in the pocket of the sink
• Ignoring History
  We choose to do this as a society as a race we clamber for bread
• Thin Line
  i dont understand this business of anger i just dont get it i dont understand
• All Things
  That we are given Are not ours to keep
• Watching Clouds In Oklahoma
  there is a blazing white dragon floating over there in the sunlight it expands like a balloon filling up slowly as i watch and there is a
• Father And Son
  And so I carry you this last time To your exhausted bed of death Where words of hope faith fear Lock our eyes in a final salute
• Mary Jane Doesn'T Live Here Anymore
  But her sweet gutteral scent Permeates through the house still Like dull shafts of sunlight Hung dusty in the windows.
• I Have Nothing To Offer But
  me love faith heart