today one of my oldest and dearest friends (and a great poet/editor to boot) Kristofer Collins is turning the unfathomable age of 40. I've known Kris since i was a wee lad of 16 years old (maybe 17 but i'm getting up there today). So to celebrate i'm taking a backseat here on WineDrunk SideWalk today and am presenting to you all a few poems by the great Kristofer Collins (without his permission of course):
Weird Kid Wondering Which Way Home
All day walking these old
Cold streets
Honey where am I going
Do you think we could find
A single sweet nothing line
To fill the empty spaces inside
Could a simple rose given by your lover
Ever hope to cover the deep black places
We've no intention of mentioning to each other
Honey where am I going
The air is stained & the streets
Won't talk to me
I stare at the ground while I walk
& sometimes I think the way I feel is right
But honey
Tonight
Everything I see tells me I'm wrong
Honey where am I going
The Poem in Which Pittsburgh & I Talk about
Ally Malinenko
Twenty degrees and the sun
Stops by
I have piles of paper
Covering the table
A roach sniffing my shoe
& I'm waiting for a good song
To come on the radio
I will be waiting a long time
Drinking the first of many coffees
I"m thinking about Ally Malinenko
A fine poet
Pittsburgh, you are poorer
For her having left
We lose so much in this town
Cannot keep them
Who make you worthy
Pittsburgh you put poison in the blood
It pulses to the tongue
You push everyone away
(almost)
We're stuck together you & I
'Til we're both gone from maps
& that is the one true thing
I put in all my poems
My old love
Today let's think of Ally
How we miss her
Ally
Buffalo, please keep her safe
Poem for Anna
It iss 11:40am, Saturday & sweet puffs,
Scatterings
Of dust, risible on car vapors
Splash dryly, explode
In the beaks of birds
Are scraps we've torn
Out, telephones are ringing
All up & down Craig Street
The ghost of last night's beer
Goes with me
Up museum steps
The paste white cloud,
Blue Crepe de chine
If you dig what you've just read Kristofer books are available HERE
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