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Doug
Tanoury is exclusively a poet of the internet.
Doug sites his 7th
grade poetry anthology used in Sister Debra's
English class as exerting the greatest influence on his work.
He still keeps a copy of Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And
Other Modern Verse (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith,
(c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) at his writing desk.
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Potatoes
Doug
Tanoury
I
stood before a pile of potatoes
In the grocery store today
That somehow strangely seemed
To awaken memories in me
For they were large
With irregular bulges and scars
With a sandpaper texture
Dirty and rough
Like my father's hands
And in the middle of crowded store
I stood alone touching the potatoes
Running my hands over their skin
Gently stroking them
Caressing them
Cupping their roughness and
Holding them in my palms for a long time
© 2001 by
Doug Tanoury
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Volume
II Issue II