04-24-2015, 03:55 PM
< father Texas >
fully dangerous
you are the hot pistol that amazed my mother
and you are looking at me right now
laughing
as i try to find a way to impress you
men of the life of my father
i invoke your names
in fear and disgust and respect
i am slipping again
into shotguns and dead animals
'round fires and whiskey
my dream
is of taking a shotgun
to your football helmet
your aftershave
your knives and boots
and all your vicious jokes about sex and women
but i need to hug you as well
to feel your body
bristling with flame and force
- - -
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions