John McKernan
I Love Dirty Windows
White bird shitBulging
With fat black mulberries
Fresh minted spider webs
Bright steering wheels turned
Towards the ripped future
The wings of blue & orange neon moths
Gold green red yellow purple pink pollen
Broken skull feathers from jay & oriole
Mud Dirt SmokeThick layers of dust
In which I write my Braille name
Through which I scribbleBROTHERHELLO!
With which I etch my Morse CodeSOS
On which I keep repeating "Father"Until like light
It shines a clean reflection of our world
Bio
John McKernan - who grew up in Omaha Nebraska in the middle of the USA - is now a retired comma herder after teaching 41 years at Marshall University. He now lives in Florida. His most recent book is a selected poems Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Journal, Antioch Review, Guernica, Field and many other magazines.