Some Distant Point
There’s a man with a blur for a face,
a can of beer and a cigarillo, standing
in a corner of a fancy living room, somewhere,
with a hardwood floor, a Persian rug and
an empty chair in the other, a bay window
between them, showing us a Spring day of
impressionist blues, yellows and greens
with a barbwire fence and an old dirt road,
trailing off to some distant point on the horizon,
and each post crowned with an old boot.
Jason Ryberg is currently an artist-in-residence at both
The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s
and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor
and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection
of poems is Are You Sure Kerouac Done It This Way!?
(co-authored with John Dorsey, and Victor Clevenger,
OAC Books, 2021). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO
with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named
Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks,
near the Gasconade River, where there are also
many strange and wonderful woodland critters.
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