Reminiscing 2018;

I walked straight off some pier

the end of the roof — gutter baby

it ended at the keyword *failure

 

our faces kissing as

if hogs to slaughter

It ended at midnight

I turned           to stone

 

the end of your cock –

ringed-necked pheasant

I always have known

About them; these

 

Roadside bars and their victims

 

not so long ago           twenty six

I was at a NASCAR track       MGD bitch

racing for freedom      republican itch

Free falling death        blue hand Sue

 

off the roof of my mouth

the skin sloughed off

Marijuana

This abnormal stadium; Costa Rican

Bale washed ashore – they said

She is vacillating – I was fainting

Mira esta vacilando, guey… C’mon… I was

 

just

making milk from Jamaican

Goats, not my own lactation

Nurse —.

 

Of sorts.

Like this. I persist with warming beer

Deep in this shit. On the back of

A Jet ski – milk breasts pushed into black back

 

This is the year I fall apart at your

Victim chest – the Year

of the sagging / supple breast.

 

This is the

Year of the blonde / spank

 

Corpse / mess

Photo by Luigi Estuye, LUCREATIVE® on Unsplash

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Elisabeth Horan is a poet mother student lover of kind people and animals, homesteading in Vermont with her tolerant partner and two young sons. She writes to survive and survives to write - We are all battling something. Let's support each other. Elisabeth enjoys riding horses and caring for her cats, chickens, goats and children (not necessarily in that order). She teaches at River Valley Community College in New Hampshire.

2 thoughts on “Reminiscing 2018;

  1. Some can write with the ink of their soul, when it comes to Mrs. Horan -you are in front of their boss- As a translator I have had the joy of working for Elisabeth. Her poetry takes me to the strangest places and the weirdest people I have known, wich I love for they both have been of great help in my life. Besides, that is exactly why I love her poetry, it has strange paths and they use to lead us to the simplest things that will always give sense to our lives. Elisabeth you are a beautful poet and human being, fortunately you know well how to paint those time passages on the canvas of your honesty. People like you make this planet the loveliest place !!!

    Pablo Heredia@
    Costa Rica

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