{"id":69,"date":"2009-07-23T22:02:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-07-23T22:02:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T03:02:16","slug":"kyle-hemmings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2009\/07\/kyle-hemmings\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Hemmings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking Backwards<\/h3>\n

Kyle Hemmings<\/a><\/em>, July 2009<\/a><\/h5>\n

I want to return to St. Thomas
\ngrow small and wooden,
\na messenger for the nuns,
\na puppet for the teacher who made us do
\npaper cut-outs of the presidents.
\nI will grow still and horizontal
\nin old hallways that hid the students’ names.
\nI will grow sparse at the sound
\nof rosary beads jingling,
\nthe rush of Sister’s Adrian’s steps
\nstriking panic into the heart of a boy
\nwho gave away the shape of the sky
\nin his answers in Catechism,
\nwho focused on nothing else
\nbut the tremolo of a bluebird’s prediction
\nthat someone\u2019s future was in doubt.<\/p>\n

The Last Days of Iowa Jones<\/h3>\n

Kyle Hemmings<\/a><\/em>, July 2009<\/a><\/h5>\n

He wrapped his heart around the prairie
\nMade the White River flow through his veins
\nThought of a woman back in Tucson
\nWhose soil was fertile as the wheat belt.<\/p>\n

But now there were chest pains
\nAnd the maw of mountain lions too close
\nIn Lawrence, Kansas he made his last stand:
\nFour old buddies who cheated him out of his gold.
\nOne wore a red scarf and answered to the name of Quantrill.
\nThe other three dropped like birds from his childhood.
\nHe took a slug in the jug.<\/p>\n

While the rains opened cracks in the earth,
\nHe rode sideways on his mare, past the buttes, the promised hands of plains,
\nNear Missoula a Crow found him unconscious as stone
\nA Blackfoot made him rise from the Dead
\nBut he died again or lived forever
\nSo the folks say on the 4:40 to Tulsa
\nThat never took them anywhere.<\/p>\n

Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey where he dreams of playing surf guitar like Dick Dale or handle a wah-wah like Jeff Beck. He sometimes sings in the shower.<\/p>\n

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