The black tarp writhed in the wind wildly
on the trailer bed of the roaring semi
and the Monday morning sun shone but mildly
through the wet veil of Summer, as a dim eye.
Rain fell heavy, glumly glistening
upon the interstate’s black-purple lanes
and a family cruised behind, kids listening
to the droplets patter upon the panes.
The tarp billowed in a Westerly wind
as if a creature incensed at the biting chain,
and as it bucked and thrashed, end to end to end,
the slick straps loosened in the silver rain.
The straps all snapped at a single blow
and the tarp flapped upwards, flying free at last
and rising like a black carrion crow
whose wings cloaked the logging poles it now cast.
The minivan dodged the first tumbling pole,
but it could not dodge the other Jenga jumble,
and the family hydroplaned into a roll—
a football flipping in a frenzied fumble.
The tarp flew away, an ambushing phantasm
whose early morning harvest was now done,
and the vein hemorrhaged with the spasm
as cars crashed together beneath a dim sun.
Stephen Marshall. Writer, illustrator, layabout. Find him on Amazon, maybe. He has paperback and kindle books listed there. He also writes Supernatural Romance under the name S.C. Foster (because his fiancee pushed him to do so). He seems to have a knack for the Romance genre, much to his chagrin. Having pursued Children's literature he is particularly proud of his Children's novel series "Lost And Found", which begins with "Chloe Among The Clover", continues recently with "Stormy Within The Strawberry Patch" and may, in some future potentiality, culminate with "Candice Through The Picket Fence". These are novels for children (including his insistent nephew), but they are also written for adults who are children at heart. His short story collection, "The Eldritch Diaries", centers primarily upon Cosmic Horror and Body Horror, combining Lovecraft's mythos with the motifs of Sigmund Freud. His largest poetry collection, "Broken Crown Kings", contains over two hundred poems and two short novellas concerning the fleeting nature of the world and Man's place within it. Recently he has published a smaller book of poetry concerning Kentucky, Moonshine, and Ghosts called "Moonshine And Spirit Chasers". A much larger collection, entitled '"Nevermore" 99 Rhymes For $0.99' is also available. For those seeking supernatural and folklore, his collection "Weeping Cherry" is available also.
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Marshall/e/B07536QKD9?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_fkmrnull_1&qid=1554215427&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
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