“SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SINGLE MALT SCOTCH AND GUITAR HERO” by Ross White (poetry, ’08)

An excerpt from “SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SINGLE MALT SCOTCH AND GUITAR HERO” by Ross White (poetry, ’08) published at The Indianapolis Review:

 

SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SINGLE MALT SCOTCH AND GUITAR HERO

Alternately, Self-Portrait on a Wednesday Night.
Alternately, This Keeps Me from Engaging
with a Friend Who Continually Disappoints Me.
Alternately, I Hardly Leave My Basement.
Alternately, The Soft Forest of Carpet
Beneath My Bare Feet Will Suffice as Refuge.
Alternately, If I Could Shrink Myself and Wander
Its Great Fibrous Oaks, I Might Never Regret Solitude.
Alternately, Self-Portrait With Thunder In My Bones.
Alternately, I Got into an Argument Over Drowning,
and Whether a Drowning Man’s Twitch Might  […continue reading here]