“Modern Family” © Keith Nunes

 

The shotgun-shack days

I gathered up my astonishment and
Ran for the back door backing out the
Moment I saw Beasty Boy enter in
Red corduroy, hammer and sickle in hand,
Glorious Gloria entered the fray from nowhere
Took the peacemaker’s role and ordered the household
Contents to remain inanimate, in the basement grandfather
Has the grandfather clock chiming again, grandmother takes out
Her hearing aids, Wolf the semi-domesticated wolf has opened
The fridge and is making himself lunch, Beasty Boy and
I are on the porch sharing a cigar, grand stories of infamy,
Gloria in the paddling pool, on the harmonica.

 

Keith Nunes (Aotearoa-New Zealand) has had poetry, fiction, haiku and visuals published around the globe. He creates ethereal manifestations as a way of communicating with the outside world. Nunes writes when the light pings and the only voices to be heard are in his head. He sleeps with Kurt Vonnegut’s hopes, Cole Swenson’s paintings, Lydia Davis’s prose, Denis Johnson’s heroines, Larry Eigner’s old wheelchair, and so on. He’s had work published throughout the troposphere. He plans to evolve into a particle. He is currently related to Pessoa.visuals published around the globe. He creates ethereal manifestations as a way of communicating with the outside world. Nunes writes when the light pings and the only voices to be heard are in his head. He sleeps with Kurt Vonnegut’s hopes, Cole Swenson’s paintings, Lydia Davis’s prose, Denis Johnson’s heroines, Larry Eigner’s old wheelchair, and so on. He’s had work published throughout the troposphere. He plans to evolve into a particle. He is currently related to Pessoa.