Three Poems

 

by Parker Tettleton

 

 

 

 

Spelling Knees

 

 

A tank

         intersecting

the grievous

         heart

(Yours)

         I kneel

the morning

         over

 

 

 

 

Touching Medication

 

 

I give to die

         in preemptive sleep

with pictures

         of everywhere

around me & you

         distantly in

choir with a favorite

         forgotten memory

 

 

 

 

My Work Is In Me

 

 

I am beside me

         when I speak

of dying & words

         do not

need comfort

         I do

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parker Tettleton’s work is featured in and/or forthcoming from Gargoyle, PANK, The Catalonian Review, Word Riot and Secret Journal, among others.  His chapbook SAME OPPOSITE is available from Thunderclap! Press.  His website is August Light.