ERNEST WILLIAMSON III has published poetry in over two hundred journals including The Roanoke Review, Pinyon Review, Westview, I-70 Review, Decanto, The Cannon’s Mouth, and Poetry, Life, & Times. Ernest is a three time Best of the Net nominee. Currently, he lives in Tennessee. Learn more here:
https://www.nawe.co.uk/DB/professional-directory/ernest-williamson-iii.html
What I Was Reading
Nam machina negata
Camped seaway as always.
Autumn is not Autumn’s past nor
milked by the Maine water. Her
squeals were not from pigs.
Twigs were not drawn
from fire but
they were
burned. As were the marshmallows pepper sprayed. We ate afterwards and sat nude seaside, as the crows picked what
was ours.
Pitted ambers stook out as nothing. But maybe
now by New
Years,
I will understand.
What I was reading, distended
and not understood.
Even-toed.
Bleeding out bright. Red
instead of gray.
before winter
flanked otter’s
side.
Bookmarked.
again.
Breathing.
Farside.
By the moon.
ERNEST WILLIAMSON III has published poetry in over two hundred journals including The Roanoke Review, Pinyon Review, Westview, I-70 Review, Decanto, The Cannon’s Mouth, and Poetry, Life, & Times. Ernest is a three time Best of the Net nominee. Currently, he lives in Tennessee.
https://www.nawe.co.uk/DB/professional-directory/ernest-williamson-iii.html