Departure Implicit
By
Bruce Louis Dodson
Loretta lives across the street
Has cancer
Both of us are long of tooth
It happens
But at least I don’t have cancer . . . yet
All of us carry the malicious cells within
Waiting for weakness
Less immune than yesterday.
But she’s a tough old bird
From North Dakota
And offended doctors by refusing treatment costing thousands
Hair loss
Nausea.
Takes pills for pain
Brian tumor headaches
Waiting . . . .
“Im ready to go,” she says.
Worked thirty years
Same job
Same place
Small office manager/receptionist
Eleven months ago she finally gave it up
Sometimes I think
Retirement has killed more of us than cancer.
Bruce Louis Dodson
1408 S. 289th Place
Federal Way, WA 98003
E-mail: 2crows@earthlink.net
Phone: (253) 945-1123
Four Feet Over Six Feet Under
By
Bruce Louis Dodson
Our lustful need for one another
Turned combustible
And she had teenage kids awake at her place
Mine was thirty miles away.
She led me to a grassy, well kept graveyard
Where the night was still as death
I asked, Arent you afraid here?
Its the safest place in town, she said.
We made love on a marble slab at midnight
Undisturbed beneath a sickle moon
But I did not go back with her again
Into that quiet place
For reasons still uncertain.
Bruce Dodson
1408 S. 289th Place
Federal Way, WA 98003
2crows@earthlink.net
Phone: (253) 945-1123
BIO
Bruce Dodson is an artist/photographer who writes fiction and poetry in Seattle, Washington.
2011 published work:
Sein und Werden (UK)
Kerouacs Dog Magazine (UK)
Breadline Press West Coast Poetry Anthology
Blue Collar Review
Chantarelles Notebook #23
Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
Pearl Literary Magazine #44
Pulsar Poetry (UK)
Struggle – Winter
Contemporary Literature Review: India
Photos:
Off The Coast
Fiction International
Qarrtsiluni August
Sein und Werden (UK)