'Red Heel' | w.va. | may 2010 | douglas imbrogno

UNDRUNK

Is how
I prefer
you.

I’m just
saying.
Nothing

more than
that,
my dear.

This is
no judgment.
Nor, god

knows, an
argument.
We, too, after

all,
were
intoxicated

with our
usual
emendation.

It’s the
sloppy talk
that makes me

want to slouch
outside in
streetlamp calm.

Fixing on
the crescent moon.
Its mouth agape

transfixed by Venus,
a pale fire flickering
the darkling heaven.

from “What I Meant to Say,” by Cardinal Crowe (The WestVirginiaVille Press)

photo | grace imbrogno mckeown | 2010

Something from Nothing

I want to see
if it is possible
to be a
nobody

from nowhere.
Creating something
out of nothing

for someone
who might be
anywhere.

~ the cardinal of crowes

Here is a doorway to some epigrammatic verse, opened after being shut for several years online.

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There’s a difference between
people who do things
and people who

don’t.
The difference is
people who

do things,
do
them.

People
who don’t,
don’t.

~ EPIGRAMMAR, Vol 2 | ‘Songs from the Other Side of the Street’
from “A Cardinal of Crows Reader” | The Spartan Eaglesburg Press, 2010

GET ALONG
(Synonyms for the word “cooperative” from thesaurus.com)

Agreeing, coacting, coactive, coadjuvant,

coefficient, collaborating, collaborative, collective,

collegial, collusive, combined, combining,

common, concerted, concurring, coordinated,

hand in glove, harmonious.

In league, interdependent, joining,

participating, reciprocal, shared, symbiotic,

synergetic, synergic,

united,

uniting.

from “WHAT I MEANT WAS: A Cardinal of Crows Reader”
(forthcoming from {The WestVirginiaVille Press} in the Hamlet of WestVirginiaVille)

The Cardinal of Crows | December 2009 | WestVirginiaVille

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Society, These Days
‘Same as it ever was …” ~ David Byrne

Society
these days,

is no more
nor less

bloody cruel
than it

ever was.
This is either

cause for
concern

or
cause

for
hope.

~ The Cardinal of Crows
(from “A Cardinal of Crows Reader,” a forthcoming title from The MultiVerse Press Association)