Tag: Food poems

• Pretzel Bites

  After my father’s eulogy, which approached me in a dream the night before his funeral as an address, trying to sell me word bags of reassurance that, when you shook them, sounded like a typical father’s gift you might find on a snow-covered street and stuffed in a stocking such as a bag of nuts […]

  Chris Russell

  April 8, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Autobiographical poems, bags, bowl, chocolate, Father/Son poems, Food poems, Illness/mental health poems, nuts, pretzel bites, snow

• Sperm Whale

  I’ve glided above and beyond the waves of my life like a sea captain who refuses to return to land. Even when I could see myself like a sunset on the horizon, I could never quite reach myself in time to make me happen. The search for self was as slippery to me as the […]

  Chris Russell

  April 3, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  Address poems, Animal poems, Autobiographical poems, bike, bittersweet, black racers, Childhood poems, coffee, dirt, Food poems, gold, grass, Illness/mental health poems, sea captain, sea serpent, ship, shipwreck, sperm whale, sunset, veins, waves