Thursday, December 3, 2009

Musician Wife


on long drives


my neck tendons
become guitar strings

my wife
reaches over

places her
velvet palm

on the back
of my head

and strums
me


a love song

By Terry Miller

1 comment:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

Terry Miller is a published and award winning poet from Fort Bend County, Texas. His work has been published in "The Foundling Review", "The Seven Circle Press", "The Houston Literary Review", "The Edison Literary Review", "The Hanging Moss Journal", "Willow Tree Poems", anthologies of the Gulf Coast Poets, Sol Magazine and other Texas publications. In January 2010, his poem "The Diagnosis" will appear in the "Birmingham Arts Journal." His first book of poetry, "The Day I Killed Superman", will be released in 2010. He is a member of the Poetry Society of Texas, the Gulf Coast Poets Society, the founder of the Fort Bend Poets Group and the Fort Bend County Poet Laureate Competition. Terry is a professor of eMarketing and holds an Innovation Fellowship at Kaplan University.

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