I wish I hadn't mentioned pay phone dimes
or female hurricanes, or pink foam rollers.
My poems slowly slip behind the times.
I wish I hadn't mentioned pay phone dimes.
Soon, editors will footnote all my lines
as coffin thieves pry silver from my molars.
I wish I hadn't mentioned pay phone dimes
or female hurricanes, or pink foam rollers.
Julie Kane is the author of the poetry collection Rhythm & Booze (University of Illinois Press, 2003), which was a National Poetry Series winner and a finalist for the 2005 Poets’ Prize. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Light Quarterly, and The Formalist, while her essays on poetry and literature can be found in many academic publications. She is an associate professor of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Julie Kane is the author of the poetry collection Rhythm & Booze (University of Illinois Press, 2003), which was a National Poetry Series winner and a finalist for the 2005 Poets’ Prize. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Light Quarterly, and The Formalist, while her essays on poetry and literature can be found in many academic publications. She is an associate professor of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.