Tag: chicken

• Enlightenment

  I tried to write myself into enlightenment the way a psychiatrist can sometimes teach you to recondition that brain slug in the skull to use its own poison as a defense, but only so you can end up turning language into shadows and light so easily it becomes too automatic to drop or slip over […]

  Chris Russell

  October 17, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Achilles tendon, Autobiographical poems, bib, calve, chicken, coffee grounds, crutch, curb, enlightenment, gear, light, meditation poems, palm tree, poison, shadows, skull, slug, storm, Subaru, trash

• Chicken

  I was walking by the Paquette’s front lawn, when a chicken spontaneously combusted. The sound it made was horrible. I looked at the other chickens and waited. After about a minute I knocked on their door. Mr. Paquette, answered, eyeing me with suspicion. “I was walking by George, and one of your chickens exploded,” I […]

  Chris Russell

  October 16, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Animal poems, chicken, Prose poems

• Plane

  The remote control plane was starting to spin out of control. I pulled back on the joystick and it landed in the neighbor’s birdbath. My neighbor came out of his house and stood in the yard with his hands on his hips. “What am I going to say? He said. He put his hands in […]

  Chris Russell

  October 14, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  baseball bat, birdbath, chicken, flame thrower, grill, joystick, mail slot, plane, Prose poems, rock garden, stone, tulips, veggie burgers