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Friday Afternoon On ConstructionClean up the site careful now, avoid nails, sharp edges heave it all onto the old flatbed tie it all down. Lock up this old building that once sheltered people and soon will again but which for now houses only tools, supplies and dusty echoes of our worknoise. Truck the trash away to the dump toss it into the landfill ease away from the hole. Somebody lights a joint on the way back to town three of us in the old truck's creaking, rattling cab reggae on our boombox and paychecks in our pockets. High on Friday Afternoon. |
ForwardI dedicate this collection to my sons, Jack, Leo, Jove and Alex, and to all of the women who have loved me, and to Dennis Holder, who showed me the difference between writing and writing. Many thanks to Wally lane, Paul Grajnert and all my slam poet friends in Seattle, without whose support and encouragement this collection would never have happened.Prior to initial publication, two of these poems, "And Maria" and "Desperados" appeared in Emeralds in the Ash, a Seattle publication featuring slam performers. Others from the collection have since appeared in various publications. (This work was initially published by Year of the Dragon Press, of Seattle, under the title, Nail and other hardworking poems with the ISBN 0-96308034-9-2.). ___________________________ |
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