Dave Worrell
Beatrice
Other girls chose the nights,
brought us together in pine-
paneled basements spiced
with cheap perfume.
The ripe, flagrant ones
usually snared me, but
she was always nearby,
too, in an outer room where
lights were bright, deep
in talk with the other uncoupled,
her luminous mind dimmed
down, wanting not to overdazzle.
Was she indifferent to the sounds
that seeped from the dark?
Bio
Dave Worrell's chapbook "We Who Were Bound" was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His ekphrastic collection "Close to Home" was published in 2015, featuring paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave's poems have appeared in Slant, Canary, Referential Magazine, Wild River Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Exit 13 and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris' Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.