CHILDHOOD
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Cory Messler
Cory Messler has published prose and poetry in Rattle, In Posse Review, Cranky, Re)verb, StorySouth, Canopic Jar, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Mitochondria, Mars Hill Review, 13th Warrior Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas Review, Stirring, Red River Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review. He chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition for 2003, and was recently published by Still Waters Press. Another chapbook, Dark on Purpose, is just out from Little Poem Press. By Cory Messler
Published on 02/23/2005
Come by this way
where the bramble tangles,
where the children
have left their spent shells
and condoms. Near
the shack where Winnie
takes her boys.
where the bramble tangles,
where the children
have left their spent shells
and condoms. Near
the shack where Winnie
takes her boys.
Come by this way
where the bramble tangles,
where the children
have left their spent shells
and condoms. Near
the shack where Winnie
takes her boys.
Near this pond which when
frozen looks like
a dirty mirror.
Come by this way,
and I will tell you how it was
for me, for all of us,
growing up under the
umbrella of mushroom clouds,
in the mystic 60s,
in a suburb called Raleigh,
on the edge of
the great, unreal Bluff City.
Copyright © Cory Messler, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
where the bramble tangles,
where the children
have left their spent shells
and condoms. Near
the shack where Winnie
takes her boys.
Near this pond which when
frozen looks like
a dirty mirror.
Come by this way,
and I will tell you how it was
for me, for all of us,
growing up under the
umbrella of mushroom clouds,
in the mystic 60s,
in a suburb called Raleigh,
on the edge of
the great, unreal Bluff City.
Copyright © Cory Messler, 2005. All Rights Reserved.