The Poems of David Garlick
My mother said. “Don’t use those words, or I’ll wash your mouth with soap!” So do you know a tasty bar to use? There are so many types, it seems and everybody laughs at me when I explain what I am looking for. I’ve tried a few like ‘Pears’, of course and all the other […]
It doesn’t really hurt that much but bells and gongs and people dash, to help a failing muscle pump, that has been tortured by neglect. I do not sit around and mope. I do not laze upon the beach. I do not overeat or drink. I do not smoke or swallow pills. Why then this […]
We were close, more than friends, for a while. Not lovers, too young but I loved you. So strong, so lithe, so beautiful to watch cleaving water in dive or languid stroke. Loved you with look and thought, never words. Too frightened to speak, afraid to lose you but we wove our hands and I […]