poetryrepairs 16,04:043

OSKAR HANSEN : Texas
OSKAR HANSEN : Tattoos

for your reading pleasure, verse
from new and established poets
poetry requires a mature audience,
if you are under 18 years of age, click here Big Fish


OSKAR HANSEN
Texas

An explosion in the engine room and the ship needed urgent repair in Houston ; I rented a car...a Buick I think a big box like monster that skidded on slightest wet surface. Mind I could only drive the car on my afternoon break. Sundays was my day I started early took the whole off as a chief steward I could do that leaving the cook to sort and he was free to drink beer without me scolding him. I stopped at a stud farm rented a horse, pretended I was a cowboy, till got saddle sore, which I never got back at the farm Norway when I rode bare back. A tee bone steak with backed potatoes life was perfect but I left early feared to get lost, Texas is a very dark place after sundown. Back on the ship the captain told me to stay on board on Sundays that he was the captain and not me. I should have invited him on the trip too, but I preferred to be alone.

poetryrepairs #223 15,04:043





OSKAR HANSEN
Tattoos 

OSKAR HANSEN Now that it is summer and the valley gets hot, I get up early and drive around on my motorbike before the sun burns the skin into dead ea rolls of ancient script proving once and for all that Israel was a district in Palestine. The tattoo, on my body – I was a seafarer- looks odd now that my body is no longer muscular but wrinkled and the sail ship on my chest has sunk and drowned in the many folds of my stomach, that looks like a petrified sea, Luckily the ship was Mary Celeste its crew rowed to my back which is a big ocean and void of ripples. But I’m only ugly in my own mind the people around her couldn’t care less, they ignore me and that is scary.

poetryrepairs #223 15,04:043







   




thank you for reading poetryrepairs
please link to http://www.poetryrepairs.com/v16/043.html
link to POETRYREPAIRS




All the fine arts are species of poetry--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

poetry repairs your heart
even as it splits it open.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Art of Reading





Our Dancing Poet Logo! FIND GIFT BUY GIFT
http://www.zazzle.com/poetryrepairshop



No state organ: POETRYREPAIRS
accepts NO money from federal,
state, or local governments.
READERS maintain poetryrepairs
NO READING FEE FOR SUBMISSIONS. DONATIONS, while appreciated, WILL NOT INCREASE CHANCES OF BEING SELECTED.


I have many things to write unto you but
I will not write with pen and ink
--JOHN the theologian


free counters

REPAIR: resort, frequent or habitual going; concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; making one's way; to go, betake oneself, to arrive; return to a place; to dwell; to recover, heal, or cure; to renew; to fix to original condition. -- Oxford English Dictionary


read more poetry

OSKAR HANSEN

OSKAR HANSEN


"poetryrepairsblog.com"
for your comments, critiques, criticism
or general discussion of poetry

top