Lila’s Bar and Grille
Helicopters are crossing the skies
talk of another war
I’m waiting through the storm
in the cool fogbank
among foghorns and seagull cries
in nowheresville
where the old men hunker
over coffee cups
behind café windows
while spiders crawl centuries
from hand to elbow and back again
lacing another dream
kingdom to catch us all
those sinister little gods
Douglas Cole has published four collections of poetry and a novella. His work appears in anthologies such as Best New Writing, Bully Anthology, and Coming Off The Line as well as journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review, Chiron, The Galway Review, Red Rock Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Slipstream. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and Best of the Net, and has received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry, judged by T.R. Hummer; the Best of Poetry Award from Clapboard House; First Prize in the “Picture Worth 500 Words” from Tattoo Highway. His website is douglastcole.com.
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