Monday, May 25, 2009

FEMA GALLERY


what’s left

of the houses is

 

in children’s

crayon drawings

 

on brittle construction

paper still

 

buttoned down

by magnets

 

to unhinged refriger-

ator doors   


By Charles Springer

 

1 comment:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

Charles Springer is a painter, having lived much of his life in Philadelphia and currently living on the family homestead in northcentral Pennsylvania. He has been writing for over twenty years and has enjoyed publishing in Apalachee Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, Cold Mountain Review, Faultline, Great Stream Review, Heliotrope and Licking River Review, among others. Some of his new poems have or will appear in Oak Bend Review, Café Review and Pemmican.

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