• KGrant, Po'try

    Posted on June 23rd, 2009

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    Paroxysm

    Paroxysm

    It’s kind of like
    a one way track
    and you can’t stop
    and all your fears
    flee like dead cells
    from flesh and soul
    shaped by those times
    when it almost happened
    but you somehow avoided it
    by a matter of inches
    or seconds
    and out and around you went
    but this is about where
    I came in
    as a superimposed
    hypertonic version
    of the living breathing entity
    that is you and [...]

  • KGrant, Po'try

    Posted on March 24th, 2009

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    Ole’ Miss

    Ole’ Miss

    by Kyle L. Grant
    Hey ole’ river,
    good god’s murk,
    ages and past times
    down ye flow.
    ancient dust bowl vessels
    plagued with the kerosene
    spine of America
    Old mighty currents,
    the wrinkled face of a nation,
    Wheredyago?
    Tales of a time,
    remember when…
    Lonely rail yards,
    moonlight ghost barge
    to the broken land of
    southern dreams.
    Frontier molasses men
    makin’ time for a shot
    of song and dance.
    Swamp songs and banjo beats,
    whistlin’ heartland [...]