Artist’s Corner: Kevin Baldwin

Amanda Deboer Bartlet so i turn up at Lindsey’s after she’s already carried the tree home andthere it was in the corner, the branches stillstiff...

Karl in the Coffee Shop Somewhere along the way I findcontentment beside thecouple at the café, happily dazed in maritalstupor, contemplating their thousandth crossword,the epic...

Spring nights, too, I wandered uptownunsheltered devouringfree-floating particles of other people’s conversationsguzzling the scent of milky treesfrothingshoweringpromises at my feet I wondered what we would be...

panning rush a man made of leatherlooks backwondersthen wanders I swallow aburning pomegranatecommon rockssloshing in the silt of my weedy water please come back sift away my murk...

Because someday it will be illegal or poisonous or both Because your hair doesn’t matter, and neither does your shirt Because you want to make out...

Glasses