Entries Tagged as 'RJ Looney'

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

rj looney | flagging down the devil

Flagging Down The Devil
I was sick
in the backseat
reading an Archie comic
The Impala
was rolling up
“Scenic”
Highway 7
“Captain” at the wheel
… “Nervous” was the navigator
Destination Dogpatch, USA
It was like a low-rent
Silver Dollar City
If you can imagine that
I could almost smell
The trout swimming
In Mill Creek in anticipation
I really needed to puke
but choked it back

Just then Nervous shrieked
“There’s a woman [...]

Friday, August 3rd, 2012

rj looney | 3 poems

January ‘51
White smoke boiled from the tailpipe
like a July thunderhead
1948 Plymouth Special Deluxe
parted an icy puddle
placed by God
in red clay and gravel
yellow stained fingers
steadied the wheel

Hill people looked out
between the muntins
of the front door window
cold metal knob smoothed
from decades of turning
the young girl lay
sweating in a bloody bed
birthing a daughter destined
to her mother’s fate

“Oh Lordy…”
to [...]