J.M. Pressley - Poetry
It's really hard writing doggerel, much less good poetry. I'm somewhere in between, feeling that I write good doggerel. Ironically, poetry is probably the one form of writing that I'd like to be serious about, but that I can't entirely take seriously. Anyway, I've included a sampler of the ones that I don't mind sharing.
- Alimony
- Ashes
- Autumn Evening on Starved Rock
- Banquo's Ghost Addresses Macbeth
- Bernardin
- Black Widow
- Bob's Reflections on the Spade-Toed Frog
- The Box
- Dusk
- Elegy for an Italian Restaurant
- Epiphany
- The Grass is Dying
- In the House of God
- Lincoln Park
- The Lonely Bulls
- Man O' War
- The Mariner's Lament
- Mjolnir
- North Branch
- Ode to Yet Another Barmaid
- Passion
- Playing Chicken
- A Poet's Salute to H.P. Lovecraft
- The Prayer of Tharkin
- Requiem for a Stratocaster
- Speaking in Tongues
- Still Life
- Sunday Afternoon on a Couch
- Televangelism
- The Troubador's Valentine
- Vanderdecken Rounds the Cape
- A Woman's Smile
- Worry Stone