The second in a series of poems centered around a photograph - ekphrasis.
It was fun licking lips and finger tips and feeling great afterwards, but I started to feel guilty.
Boots and Jacket
blur
and that feathered V of the boot
hiding under a ninety-degree angle
same as the angle the world imposes on lone cowboys
life burned into sepia-tone layers
modern-day Marlboro men forced to leather up and traipse about inside of it,
walking without quite letting the world touch them
the shadows and the shirt-coverings blur the same color
western roles [...]