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John
Cotter has published
work in www.pith.net and Maverick
Magazine. He's a freelance writer and lives in Boston.
Shafer
Hall is a Texas poet
and playwright living in Brooklyn. His play, These Men Died While
Dreaming, was preformed by Austin's ONEtheatre company. Some of his
poems are available at www.thenakedape.com.
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Midwest
John
Cotter & Shafer Hall
There goes Ben Schiek's little girl
Through rows of blue corn
Observed, from under the earth
By sleeping seasons
Of bending barns and holly
And the music of my shoes
Moving away from her,
Moving home. I taught her
Nothing, she showed me
How to walk on smaller feet,
Friendly groundswells
Where my brothers are buried
Ache like stalks when she walks
Across them toward me,
nearer to me, past.
Lace isn't
Denim or even gingham but
When I lay my cheek on
My bluejeans another
World is born,
Beneath those fields I knew:
Stalk, rock and swell,
Like the back of her hand.
© 2001 by John Cotter &
Shafer Hall
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Volume
II Issue III