Three Poems by A.J. Huffman

You Killed My Speaker

Without hesitation, your mind

brought immediate demise.

Fanatically final.  Though, in

your defense, she is often

bloodied and bare

-ly breathing.  Buried. 

Under some viscous liquid. 

Battling, cavorting, even wooing

some darker insanity.  Inside

(and outside) the frame

of lines such as these.

Yet somehow your betrayal

is worse than hers.  So dismissive

in its dissidence.  Maybe you were

trying to concede her silence.

(Or echo mine?)  The differentiation

is uncertain.  And certainly uncanny

in its noble pursuit of conclusivity.

If only my eyes wore such shades

of black and white.  Alas, it is

divisibility that continues

to flow.  In red and gray streams.

Rushing my mind, her robes,

and your puddled opinions. 

What a strange wave

we leave.  All shaved, shined,

but still lost.  Just outside

the idea[l] of communality.

Of Tissue

fragile

           box

filler

sneeze

catcher

            crumbled

germs’

disposal

Seeing ADD

Legal pads filled with partially

formed thoughts

laden table, floor.  Not

abandoned, just asided in attempt

to make                                     space

for next muse-forced

minding.  They flow past midnight,

into dawn, fumble

                              about meals,

                                                   forgotten

in frantic        forage for pen.        A long drive,

nightmare of paused

          pull-overs, safe

                                    attempts to salvage brilliant bits of

verse.  Days, weeks, months, later,

                   crumpled

words found, retraced. 

                                       Fresh eyes finding

conjoinment of several parts.  Finally,

                    a whole is formed.

A.J. Huffman has published twelve solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  Her new poetry collections, Another Blood Jet (Eldritch Press), A Few Bullets Short of Home (mgv2>publishing), Butchery of the Innocent (Scars Publications), Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink) and A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press) are now available from their respective publishers and amazon.com.  She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2400 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, and Kritya.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com.