LETTERS TO THE DEAD: 25, 26, 27

6/25/2018

To: the Morris book shop: (2008 – Jan. 2017)

Dear Mr. Wyn,
when I went in
I missed the new sign
THE PRISSY PEACH BOUTIQUE
and yelled
“hey, you got any jack kerouac?”
that smart blond did respond
“I got nothing to offer anybody,
  except my own confusion”

Confused too, Jim

6/26/2018
Holler Poetry Series (2008 – 2016)
to: The Spoken Word

Dear Eric,

we, one hundred times,
tossed our rhymes across the floor
of good old Al’s Bar

Thanks a million, Jim

6/27/2018
T0: Donald Hall (1928 – June 23, 2018)

In the best part of the best day
absorbedness occupies me
from footsole to skulltop.
Hours or minutes or days – who cares?
– lapse without signifying.

From Hawks’ Point on Dividing Ridge, Jim