Poems from Grady VanWright
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they peeled him back,those priests,hands slick with oils,dropped his heartin a jar like an olive.
wrapped him tight,packed him for eternity...
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We met over oysters and laughter,the brine of the sea caught in her smile,her lips, parted slightly, tasted of salt and secrets.I drank her...
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He wakes to the thick breath of morningin a room swaying soft with the dust of dreams—his hand stumbles for a brush, but it’s not there,...
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how it gleams under show lights—
chrome shimmered once like this,but not after '67, when my brother drove itthrough siege, shot-out glass,...
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Did she know,as hoofbeats split the Derby’s thunderous haze,her breath catching like a thread in a broken loom,that history does not halt...