sidewalks of canal street

by D.B. Cox

 

the "big easy" lies
like a dark, bleeding animal-
an old man with no name
face washed away
by hurricane rains
dies without objection
over two bottles of water
& half-a-bag
of powdered donuts-

frazzled mind
running like a wild dog,
the young killer
stares down
through bewildered eyes
trying hard to work
his own angle of reference

dying remnants of order
struggle in the bloody water
then sink- eight feet
to the sidewalks
of canal street

 

© 2006 D.B. Cox

D.B. Cox is a blues musician/poet from South Carolina. His writing has been published in Zygote In My Coffee, Remark, Underground Voices, Thunder Sandwich, Dublin Quarterly, Aesthetica, Bonfire, Gator Springs Gazette, Heat City Review, My Favorite Bullet and Open Wide Magazine. He has three books: “Passing For Blue” (published by Rank Stranger Press), “Lowdown” and “Ordinary Sorrows” (published by Pudding House Publications) available on the publishers' websites.