Linda Gray

 

her story:
she testified
there in the van’s glove compartment of summer

a holy man
a wild child
a savior
a psychic
a minor hero

the photo of a murder:
headlights flashing and leaving the guns
below the funhouse

one lie: she hardly mentioned dancing at the circus

 

Remix: King, Stephen. Joyland. London: Titan Publishing Group Ltd. (Hard Case Crime Novels), 2013. 232-234. EPUB file.

 

Carney Bullshit

 

because I wanted the beach
because I wanted to fly
because I believed all those years

my words …………..lungs and heart

there were nothing under there
touching another world

 

 

Remix: King, Stephen. Joyland. London: Titan Publishing Group Ltd. (Hard Case Crime Novels), 2013. 136-137. EPUB file.

 

 

 

 

Ava C. Cipri holds an MFA from Syracuse University, and is a poetry editor for The Deaf Poets Society: An Online Journal of Disability Literature & Art. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in decomP, Rust + Moth, and The Fem, among others. Ava’s chapbook Queen of Swords is forthcoming from dgp. She resides at: www.avaccipri.com and tweets at @AvaCCipri