Poetry by David L O'Nan

              Fred Postles CC



Frothy Landscapes

There is a mystery behind these frothy landscapes
With millions of milked wintery gusts
Left battling the leaves in the wisps of ghosts in the Autumnal atmosphere.

Years repressed in the straitjacket
I’ve been waiting for your resurrection
I’ve been waiting to pick the cherries
After your nursing home crucifixions.

The loner from the wrong land
Can’t find his shadow anymore
The loner is on the tracks
Invisible to the trains
With hemorrhages to the sound.

You’ve been many strangers
You’ll always have your lasso
To pop the bubbles in the cowboy’s dirt
They’ll always scatter your puzzle 
Where your broken heart will swarm your disappearing mind.

And when you finally breathe
As your last stranger
Your best strength was your secret
That nobody even tried to decipher in the blizzards.

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David L O'Nan is a poet/writer/editor living in Western Kentucky, He is the editor along with his wife Hillesha for the Poetry & Art Anthologies "Fevers of the Mind Poetry Digest" and has also edited & curated "the Avalanches in Poetry: Writings & Art Inspired by Leonard Cohen". He has self-published works under the Fevers of the Mind Press "The Famous Poetry Outlaws are Painting Walls and Whispers"(soon to be revised) "The Cartoon Diaries"(2019) & "New Disease Streets" (2020). He is a Best of the Net Nominee for his poem "I honored You in Pennyrile Forest" in Icefloe Press. David has had work published in Icefloe Press, Rhythm N Bones Press off-shoot Dark Marrow, Truly U, 3 Moon Magazine, Elephants Never, Royal Rose Magazine, Spillwords & more. His website can be found at www.feversofthemind.wordpress.com. His Twitter is @davidLONan1 and @feversof for Fevers of the Mind. Facebook Author Page: DavidLONan1

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