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A Walk Past Wheeler Park in Flagstaff Arizona
I see the beige field buckling to the untamed lightness of green. The chittering sprinklers, the water, the mini-vans, the empty lot, and the kids kicking a hacky sack. Continue reading
America, beer, bees, Billie Holiday, bird, birds, boating, bummer, canyon, cars, chef, Chicago, coffee, colorado river, cook, cooking, death, desert, desperate, desperation, discomfort, dresser, drink, drugs, drugs and alcohol, drunk, ease, fallout, Fiction, Flash, food, furniture, gender, happiness, hiking, home, hope, humans, husband, infertility, jail, kicked out, kids, lessons, love, lovers, lust, man, marriage, men, messy, Moving, naked, nature, NAVY, nostalgia, nude, object, one night stand, our time, our town, peace, people, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, poets, power, punk, punk rock, Review, river, robin, route 66, sadness, scorpions, secrets, sex, sheep, shit, small towns, spiders, Spring, suicide, symbols, the west, time, train station, trains, truth, Up all night, vortex, voyeur, vulnerability, vulnerable, war, work, workers, working, writing -
If You Asked Me About Michael E. Casteels
The chosen language and cadence of the work hefts off the usual pomp of poetry, without leaving any of the poetics behind. Continue reading
About Me
A poet-chef living in Denver, Co. I use the orange Aquafresh toothpaste, off brand mouthwash, and those little floss picks.