Two poems by Hamlin and Robinson
This is When the Killer Cat Strikes
by Bradley Mason Hamlin
I once
threw a poet
up against a tree trunk
so hard
he stuck there
for
just a magical moment
(don’t worry,
he was a bad guy)
it’s like
when you’re tossing
your yo-yo
and
it suddenly hangs
there
straight out
in front of you
spinning …
but not falling
and
you’re like
what the fuck
that’s amazing
or surfing
pacific ocean blue
as the sea
un-expectantly
takes a deep breath
all is super
still …
before
rushing
to
shore
the
best sex
is like that
defying
gravity
before ecstasy
as
the rollercoaster
drops.
So Softly
By John D Robinson
She so softly lifted her
friend’s naked breast to
her lips and licked the
nipple so gently,
and it was something
to see and I turned
to her boyfriend to see
if he was watching
this but he had passed-
out, the victim of
grass and wine:
I looked on as they
enjoyed one another,
I rolled a couple of
joints and drank
some more wine
and watched them,
now and again one
of the girls would
glance over at me and
I’d slowly nod my
head like a smiling
approving Caesar and
I tell you,
it was the most gentle
of love making between
two human beings,
far away from the
grunt and groan
selfish macho
bullshit.
These two poems are from These Poems Stole Your Lunch Money, a new collection by Bradley Mason Hamlin and John D Robinson, edited by John D Robinson and published by Holy&intoxicated Publications. For European orders write to johndrobinson@yahoo.co.uk, for US orders visit mysteryisland.net.
Bradley Mason Hamlin is an American writer, veteran of the US Navy and alumnus of the University of California, where poet Gary Snyder dubbed him “The Road Warrior of Poetry!” Born in Los Angeles, Hamlin currently lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife, kids and wild cats. He is the creator of Secret Society Comics and publisher at Mystery Island Publications. His latest book of poems, Zen in the Art of Drinking, is available from Holy&intoxicated Publications.
John D Robinson is a UK poet. His chapbooks include When You Hear The Bell, There’s Nowhere To Hide (2016), Cowboy Hats & Railways (2016), Damned Dirty & Dangerous, with Ben John Smith (2017), The Making Of An Outlaw (Scars Publications), and Looking Down Both Barrels, with Adrian Manning (2017). His work appears widely and frequently in the small press and online literary journals.
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