JR : Writing

Base

Base

A Poem by JR


Like any ghost once this owned bones, it drank it laughed, it danced, sang and moaned like all things it grew weary of its body, li..
Small

Small

A Poem by JR


I feel small now where yesterday I felt I walked much taller, cast a much wider shadow but today, today I realize I’m small ..
Dirt and Skin

Dirt and Skin

A Poem by JR


For EEC, forever may he sleepWo man she wor ks her way in get s under your sk in like Cum ings implied spi ed at your word s like..
Jim

Jim

A Poem by JR


Jim I once so badly wanted to be you I wore your clothes and I tried to throat your rasp and couldn’t ever quite make it the same, you,..
Papa

Papa

A Poem by JR


The last time I remember being with him while he was in his right mind we were driving his beat pickup into town for supplies and he still cal..
Sparkling

Sparkling

A Poem by JR


All of this world is a bright, colorful sparkling illusion all of my life is a torn contention between white of my future cross..
Miserable

Miserable

A Poem by JR


Miserable is a good word, misery another, one from the self one feeds the other, a cup filled to the brim with dark rich fluid, miserable..
Downfall

Downfall

A Poem by JR


His downfall everyone said was women, he told me he couldn’t live, he couldn’t breathe, he couldn’t sweat without their touch ..
Spelling Book

Spelling Book

A Poem by JR


It was one of those cheap things from the eighties, a book about spelling with watery blue ink, thin, it’s pages made of cheap pape..
Leak

Leak

A Poem by JR


You are still so beautiful to me, the pictures you choose to post seem remote, I have no connection to them, it’s like the ghost of you t..