Barrie Levine

family legend . . .
Aunt Edith’s fox stole
bites her on the neck

— Barrie Levine

burning toast

the smoke alarm

that refuses to die

— Barrie Levine

Barrie Levine

midnight sun 

the garden  

grows you

— Barrie Levine

Barrie Levine

the crunch
of roasted coffee beans . . .
her brown eyes

— Barrie Levine

relapse—

wishing for

a different disease

— Barrie Levine

Barrie Levine

x-ray suite
        her bones slide off
the steel table

— Barrie Levine

Barrie Levine

biker’s joint
the short order cook
stirs up a broth

— Barrie Levine

military brat her trail of pet burials

— Barrie Levine

Barrie Levine

midnight snack . . .
the ashes in grandpa’s urn
gone missing

— Barrie Levine

boiling over

with Type O

her iron kettle

— Barrie Levine

Barrie Levine

glint of a wire in the piano tuner’s case

— Barrie Levine

Barrie Levine

funeral cortège
a traffic light
drips red rain

— Barrie Levine