Rengay: Damp Earth

a black butterfly
chases the cloud
damp earth / ws

what's up is down
ceiling spider / jm

ducks on the church roof
stand witness in the rain
afternoon nap / ws

granite moraine
waiting for the next
glacial movement / jm

hard liqour and beer
business picks up after 5 / ws

backwards-
black ant
pulling a centipede / jm

John Merryfield
William Sorlien

June 19, 2009

Renhai: the signs, still the same

wrong turn
at the Stahl House Bar
the sign's still the same

old graybeard on the stoop
of #8 Winter Street

Dillinger and the Barker Gang
laying low
red cobblestones

Across the Swing Bridge

river moon
rust makes its silent creep
across the swing bridge

a masked tagger's
precarious balance

lightning's flash
the barge's grinning maw
below

maikindazen

Untitled

daylight moon
chalk figures drawn
on concrete

2 am rain as
dogs bark at shadows

first of the month
an abandoned sofa
on the sidewalk