writing from
Scars Publications

Audio/Video chapbooks cc&d magazine Down in the Dirt magazine books

 


This appears in a pre-2010 issue
of cc&d magazine.
Saddle-stitched issues are no longer
printed, but you can requesting it
“re-released” through amazon sale
as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book!
Email us for re-release to order.

cc&d v192

Order this writing
in the book

Survival of the Fittest


Get this book in different forms:
Survival of the Fittest
Download this writing
in the free chapbook

Challenge of Night and Day,
and Chicago Poems


by Michael Lee Johnson
(released 07/28/10)
     hallenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems      Challenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems      you can also get this writing
as a 6" x 9" perfect bound book
with either a Chicago day or Chicago night cover!

click on the left images, or
follow the link below to order
Challenge of
Night and Day,
and Chicago Poems

Order this writing in the 2010 poetry collection book

An Open Book
An Open Book - 2010 poetry collection book click on the book cover
for an author & poem listing,
order the
5.5" x 8.5" ISSN# book

order the
6" x 9" ISBN# book

Charley Plays a Tune

Michael Lee Johnson

Crippled with arthritis
and Alzheimer’s,
in a dark rented room
Charley, plays
melancholic melodies
on a dust filled
harmonica he
found abandoned
on a playground of sand
years ago by a handful of children
playing on monkey bars.
He now goes to the bathroom on occasion,
peeing takes forever; he feeds the cat when
he doesn’t forget where the food is stashed at.
He hears bedlam when he buys fish at the local market
and the skeleton bones of the fish show through.
He lies on his back riddled with pain,
pine cones fill his pillows and mattress;
praying to Jesus and rubbing his rosary beads
Charley blows tunes out his
celestial instrument
notes float through the open window
touch the nose of summer clouds.
Charley overtakes himself with grief
and is ecstatically alone.
Charley plays a solo tune.



Scars Publications


Copyright of written pieces remain with the author, who has allowed it to be shown through Scars Publications and Design.Web site © Scars Publications and Design. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission from the author.




Problems with this page? Then deal with it...