Photography © Glenn Bowie

 

American

Sonnets For American Terrance Hayes
Writing With American Fountain Pens
In An American Garden Ripe With
New English Forsythias: speak to me
American Boy & American
other. Americans tentatively
extirpate foreign material. Yikes.
Sometimes being American disgusts
me. It should disgust us all, if I’m real.
We the Empire. We the Colonizers.
This then: just sonnets for Terrance H.

Dear Terrance,
                    I need to read more of you.
Of your books, is what I mean. It’s dark here,
like real dark. Today I tore down a flag.

 

Caleb Merritt is an artist living and working in the Treasure Valley. He asks “Where’s the treasure?” almost daily.

Glenn Bowie is a published poet, lyricist, and photographer from the Boston area. He also owns and operates an elevator company that supplies custom-built elevators for clients from New England to Hollywood. Author of two poetry and photograph collections (Under the Weight of Whispers and Into the Thorns and Honey) on Big Table Publishing, he donates all profits from his books to various charities for the homeless and local animal shelters.