semantikon feature literature
February. 2009:
Jerry Judge
| 9 Poems
works
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
bio

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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The Hiding Game

You’ve played the hiding game
so well that even God can’t find you.

You’ve lost yourself and dream
about people without faces.

One night you walk the aisles of a supermarket
trying to re-connect with physical things of this world.

You trudge through nights of waning moon.
Even in full moon, your shadow is absent.

Daylight hurts your eyes, but you’re so afraid
of death vibrating through the night.

You once knew one smart woman who loved God,
but that’s the only memory you didn’t hide.

You see five apple trees and one sea gull.
You’re in New York City and don’t know why.

All you have left are dark desires
pulling your collar with an invisible hand.