Poems Niederngasse
Mike Duron

red

"it isn't as if anyone would notice,"
he thinks,
as he pushes the brown
plastic brush

screwed on
to the tip
of the twisted-wire shaft

his irony:
cleaning the barrel of a pistol
is a metaphor
of sex

the room is dark
and smells of Hoppe's

how many millions
of men in the world

does he vanish into?

shadows under the door
cause the sunlight there
to flicker.

why does she
come home

now?

round I, poem 2 (April 14)

Mike Duron lives in a vast cave that may only be accessed via an underwater entrance located in a dark, still pond in the heart of the heart of the woods, deep, deep in the heart of Texas. Living like a reclusive Grendel, he spends most of his time gnawing on bones and surfing the web, rolling fresh ideas for poetry around his mind like a snifting socialite rolls brandy around his tongue. If you dare come closer, you can find him at mikeduron.com.