My Favorite Poems by Kevin Opstedal

Concrete Submarines
by Kevin Opstedal
this storm front isn't listed at cumulus dot comand
these winds aren't exactly programmed to
sweep the leaves from the street
There are places we can go if you care to go
always far away, always just right here
meant to realign the stars that failed us
feeling each one burned out distinct
So that I pretend sometimes I'll look upand see thru the empty sockets of their light
that I might know in all this swirling dark
who you are now & why this is so...

Copyright © Kevin Opstedal 1999
Published in "Like Rain" by Angry Dog Press
Can be purchased at: Small Press Distribution http://www.spdbooks.org



Morning Glass
by Kevin Opstedal
in 6 minutes it'll be 5 days
slamming through the lunar fog
riding the torque of the hummingbird suna minor headache in my left ear
& a tremor in my touch...
just a little off, you know, but
still subject to a routine cause & effect
I no longer believe inbeside the subzero telephone
which remains unanswered
because I'm not there
because to be gone is the only vanity I can afford right now
pure blue sensations of day
peel away whatever interest there was in something that fades
& now tilting down into the blue-green concrete Pacific
to measure the evaporation rate
because this breeze will continue to distinguish
gliding out along your flawless rush
to a place where breath alone is no solution
& I break down into interchangeable parts
the air represented by seagulls & a few clouds here & there
so that I might learn their calm

Copyright © Kevin Opstedal 1998
Published in "California Redemption Value"
by: Blue Press Books http://www.bluepressbooks.com/index.html
Where it can be purchased along with his other works and the works of other great writers as well.
It can also be purchased at:
Small Press Distribution, http://www.spdbooks.org



Los Paranoias
by Kevin Opstedal
I signed up for the coma but all I got was short-term memory loss & blurrd vision & now seeming deja vu spanks the cerebrum
& Space throbs wi/the tempo of something possible as if it was me tapping at the window
my eyes degaussed by a million sillicon butterflies
pinned to the icy light...

Copyright © Kevin Opstedal 1997
Published in "Sand in the Vaseline" by Mike & Dale's Press
Can be purchased at:
Small Press Distribution, http://www.spdbooks.org


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