Poems Niederngasse
John Vick
Bailing hay

Bailing hay
at his hobby farm
with Lanita, who is Mother
in a family with an overseas Daddy.

Oklahoma
thunder on the horizon,
black cumulonimbus coming
in strong, centeredness, centrifuge.

It's '78
and Daddy's in Kuwait
City, with Sheiks and stocks at
hand; Company Man in the blowing sand.

Hay gets into
the barn shut tight as the rain
begins and Daddy, dear Daddy, brings back
a red and grey
keffiyeh.

round I, poem 8, June 12

John Vick lives and works in Minneapolis.  His work has been published lightly in various print and online journals.  Most recently, his work was featured in the Rear View Mirror section of The Hiss Quarterly.  John is studying poetry at the University of Minnesota and with a mentor through the Split Rock Writing Program.  Vick says that poetry has eructed from him a multitude of hidden feelings; he believes it is better than any talk therapy or medication one could rely upon.  email:  John Vick