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February. 2009:
Jerry Judge | 9 Poems |
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| 1. Rhythm |
| 2. Writing at the Waffle House |
| 3. 27 Million Shoes |
| 4. The Hiding Game |
| 5. Translation |
| 6. Absent Without Leave |
| 7. December 7, 1996 |
| 8. My Only Groupie Attacked by Vicious Garage Door |
| 9. The Last Poem |
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Jerry Judge is the author of six collections of poetry. His latest works are Luna Moth (2008 – Finishing Line Press) and Outlaw Poet (Pudding House – 2008). His poems have been published in several anthologies and a variety of journals including New York Quarterly, Pudding, Main Street Rag, Nerve Cowboy, Poetry Depth Quarterly, American Tanka, Chiron Review and Writer’s Journal. He is a former President of the Greater Cincinnati Writers’ League, and he’s active in writing events around the region. He works for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati and lives in Cincinnati with a gorgeous wife, three royal cats and one rambunctious dog. He has two grown sons – Nick, a firefighter/medic, and Devin, a student at Ohio State University.
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Download Jerry Judge Broadside Poster "Rhythm" |
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Rhythm
(first published in New York Quarterly)
… and Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
…Edwin Arlington Robinson
3 a.m.
From the living room,
light from one lamp.
Vincent is reading
the poem over and over.
Aching to pulverize his father’s bones,
Vincent once, in his twenties,
began to dig up the grave.
When Vincent’s eyes close,
he is eight and his hands are tied
to the back of a kitchen chair.
His father’s gin face
in his face calling him trash
like his mother, saying that he’s
only good as a practice drum.
The sticks beat to a rhythm
that the band will no longer
let his father play.
Vincent’s life
so carefully constructed
with wife, job, two children.
Vincent steps outside.
Down the street,
another house
with a light on.
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