Grave Poem of Sp0on Island: Jonas Bateman
(1990)
Inspired by the book "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters. These poems have been crafted by me under the title "Grave Poems of Spoon Island".
There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
GRAVE POEM: EDITH MUDGET… How is it that I, who kept my hou… And, indeed, my life, and the live… Of my family, in perfect order; I, who made the beds before they w…
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing
Pappa always told me that you should never tell all you… and I found it to be good advice I recall the time I got back from… with my winter stores back in ‘39
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction