JR : Writing

County Line

County Line

A Poem by JR


We’d some(time)s swim up at County Line when I (was) a kid, a big group of us driving up (there) in my beat-a*s truck early summer, the river..
Lock

Lock

A Poem by JR


The trick really is not think about her anymore when the dog barks, you lock the door stack all your cares like wood laid in rows out o..
Square Dance

Square Dance

A Poem by JR


One more time around and darling this timetry and make my jaw quivermake my muscles go tenseheel toe and spinone more time around and this timemak..
Alien

Alien

A Poem by JR


(Cons)iderate fellow really though not really (train)ed to deal with us we watched as he walk(ed) from the woods only his shadow walked (with..
Homecoming

Homecoming

A Poem by JR


Forgiveness is a funny thing… I carry my mistakes as stones in my jar one the heaviest I’d held since freshman year when I wound..
Steak House

Steak House

A Poem by JR


I like my meat a little pink in the middle among the gray not all pink, that’s too much, and I don’t want the damn thing still ..
Nearing Jordan

Nearing Jordan

A Poem by JR


I remember the first time she lied to meor at least the first time I knew for surethe set of her jaw, so much like my ownsnow fell just outside th..
Dinner Table

Dinner Table

A Poem by JR


Truth be told, we let silence in beneath our skin, like a worm, tunneling we let it eat our meat from the inside until like fruit we bruised ..
Numerology

Numerology

A Poem by JR


Three poems per day, minimum three cups of coffee, ok, maybe more like four four-thirty in the morning stroke beard thirty-five pounds, eigh..
Knife Fighting

Knife Fighting

A Poem by JR


The best way to win a knife fight is to not get in one but we’ve all felt the touch of steel; look at these scars on my left hand, ..