POEM: Come with me, Shelby (11)

Posted 26 April, 2010 in Audio Poems, My poems, Poetry

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Come with me, Shelby

come with me, Shelby
leave Dunkin’ Donuts behind
abandon the too-sweet smell of the batter,
the truckers’ glares,
long-separated from warm flesh
and soft mouths
leave your ill-chosen uniform
and the constriction of low wages
we’ll drive to the lake
sit in my pickup on top of the hill
try to spot the woodpecker
building a home
I’ll find us a tree
peck at it with my pointed intentions
burrow down
until the sap sticks to our skin
with a texture no glazed donut can replicate
we’ll have no natural predators,
feel no need to pray
content to perch
above the ebb and flow of this life
and to taste the sweet morning air

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11 comments to “POEM: Come with me, Shelby”

Dan Rako, April 26th, 2010 at 8:39 am:

  • Cream filling trumps tree sap, almost every time…

Jason Crane, April 26th, 2010 at 11:09 am:

  • True, true.

Marie, April 26th, 2010 at 11:20 am:

  • I hope she said yes! I used to work in a Dunkin’ Donuts. I would have loved for someone to take me away from the crushing sweetness.

Jason Crane, April 26th, 2010 at 11:26 am:

  • Thanks, Marie! This is a work of fiction, but I like to think she said yes.

Matt Quinn, April 26th, 2010 at 12:00 pm:

  • Sounds like a great plan. I like!

Jason Crane, April 26th, 2010 at 1:55 pm:

  • Thanks, Matt.

Elaine Heveron, April 26th, 2010 at 2:18 pm:

  • Poetry is not memoir–(we have to keep reminding people who know us). It’s the voice of the poem. I’m enjoying the voice in your poem: Come With Me, Shelby

Jason Crane, April 26th, 2010 at 2:25 pm:

  • Thanks, Elaine.

Robin, April 26th, 2010 at 8:08 pm:

  • Beautifully written. I wasn’t expecting this when you started with Dunkin Donuts!

Jason Crane, April 26th, 2010 at 11:17 pm:

  • Thanks, Robin!

jasoncrane.org » Two days of poetry (part 2): St. John Fisher College, May 8th, 2010 at 11:10 am:

  • [...] the military, and his experiences certainly inform his writing. Matt read two of my poems, too – “Come with me, Shelby” and [...]

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