This Poem was Submitted By: Stephen M Gallagher On Date: 2001-04-21 13:16:44 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Looking for Jesse James

Slowly the dawn comes over him.  Dust bowl 8 days a week.   Time goes slowly there.  When the wind picks up he remembers  the day his grandmother made him a vanilla ice cream  and orange Crush shake.  And the time he spent  an entire afternoon on the bed of a dried up pond.   Now he is running.  He is looking for Jesse James.   Following the signs as they appear to him.  Turning over rocks  and moss eaten logs.  Tearing up the earth till his fingers bleed.    “Maybe you can find him in the moon,” said the owl on the tree branch. Day turns to night.  Fog rolls over him in a dreamscape.   Again, he waits for the winds to bring a scent of the good old days:   Chanel N° 5, bacon and eggs, burning leaves.   But today the wind is empty.   Not even a whisper to point him in the  direction of his fallen hero.

Copyright © April 2001 Stephen M Gallagher


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