Posts by Terry Horn
Still life with pea pods
join the family rough and gritty locked into happy Exclusive serenity travels passenger seat dreams rolls down the window with a button turns the radio on musicians good will wardrobes needed a job to love cooks up some art
Read MoreThe kids
it rained then it stopped then it rained then it poured mystic sunshine a sage or a prophet a woman with a shovel harmony in the garden silence in the courtroom a holiday then the circus came unelectable god role annoited needs to work who needs lies and promises not the dogs cats or children
Read MoreUs
surrounded by learning and opportunity life on a crazy planet look around unnurished in time the bread was beautiful success elevated tradgic constant joy waiting done before worse and better do it once do it right no need to return always sometimes I am a ghost standing right here kneeling in front of us
Read MoreRehearsal
why hesitate everything you say is lunacy and rehearsed
Read MoreHorse with a name
every night a mare horse shoes at the window going outside now to gallop away
Read MoreSmile
came from a prominent family of sea urchins one at a time they would disappear some bought an island while others worked the boardwalk in wildwood it was season it was crowded it was loathsome it was magic frowns and smiles shaped by multiple encounters with tourists the ocean was a postcard said miss you…
Read MorePhantasmagorical
15 years later consistency means missing you your voice appears let’s sing happy birthday to you
Read MoreRound and round one day
She had many names different identities for different situations a cab driver driving me round and round was not a victim only acting in a scheme achieving the necessary spy thriller watered animals for a living made her way traveling bar to bar take notes for poems she would later write some day
Read MoreShirt
Never thought could transition and be so complete conflict in a jar with lid then produced touched with fire electric keeps score and advances talks about air and matches the moon becomes the sun becomes the moon get out and buy something a hat a shirt an ashtray 3 kiwi and reading glasses because it…
Read MoreWave
Finding respect hard to believe early in the late process the idea combat hand to hand not yet inside the blank terrified because it is concrete ordered as if starving in charge and empty floats and pushes floats and pushes listening underneath the water snorkel and mask as above you serf reconciling a wave
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