Sunday, June 2, 2024

Featured Poet for June: g emil reutter



Featured Poet for June:
g emil reutter



g emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 19 collections of his poetry and fiction have been published, most recently, Until Next Time - Selected Poems 1990-2022 and a chapbook, Glint- Down the Shore Poems, 2024.


He can be found here:

 https://gereutter.wordpress.com/about/  Videos https://gereutter.wordpress.com/videos/




Not Over the Rainbow

 

I

 

Toto whimpers, Dorothy not here

loud crunching of carrots, rabbit not

here. Jersey across water, interstate ribbons

through. Town of refinery tanks, Amazon rises

from steel dust, under bridges over roads, row house

yards. Refinery towers, warehouses on edge. Sssh/sniffy

rattle/cough. Suburban wasteland, urban landscape of crumbling

cathedrals to store front churches

 

II

 

No snow, rain. Just cold and colder

cold in the woods of everywhere, naked

petrified leaves of rotten brown hang from

frayed small suckers, uprooted trees, broken boles

throw, snap, stands horizontal, broken trunk after broken

trunk, roots splayed in midair. Flashing red light, ice chunks pierce

defeated shore line.



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