Christopher Mulrooney resides in Los Angeles. His published work includes poems, fiction, translations and photographs published in Combo, Janus Head, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Big City Lit, and Another Sun.
the town screams a little dream of you
and Mt. Whitney is there like a nice
of mince pie that kind of yours
you couldn't get better in the old country
perhaps
poem by Robert Frost
it's the troublemakers make dirt of the place
Mt. Whitney rises catastrophically higher
see screaming the motorcyclists
burrow the furrow of dank day
in fulminous attributes
to be catalogued
than all the degrees in wisdom
the dust stops
and over in the other direction
like the bus in dead of night
nothing's open
and you can go from there
where you will to the sea
a straight shot by and by
Mt. Whitney a cool presence
wagons
gray soil
doubtless
used to stop here
now it's the overnight
bus in the vacant farmlands rests
at night
marches across
the mist to town and wan
green grass bewilders like the sound
of nought
there is the world
to be considered yet
hereabouts are the beginnings
of life
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