DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:   "A Small Hot Town" by Collier Nogues Originally read: July 5, 2013 More information about the Poet: Collier Nogues "Poem based on movement and speed."  This is what past me wrote on the side.  And, as you can tell on the page, past me wrote a lot of arrows pointing down.  It's not that each individual stanza is a separate entity, rather the poem is such in a rush some places and feelings merge together in a somewhat messy way to stay cohesive. The opening stanza is the only couplet in the poem, "The river its balm. / I spend a lot of time" which introduces two important figures in the poem, in order, -- the place, and the speaker. The poem continues to interplay the importance of play more than speaker since the second stanza, "waiting in the car, / nail file dust sifting / onto the gearshift" versus the action (or disappearance) of place, "Two corner stones gone / and a handle of gin / under the Wa...