Damon Hubbs
For the One Slowly My Two Suitcases
break
fast, two cups
of coffee
the shepherd’s hour
take the kids to school
overhear parents talking about tickets to King Tut’s Tomb
think about the doorway into truth
buy a baguette, bananas…
read Nell Zink’s “The Welfare State”
with
Erin
talk about Nancy Cunard
Drax Hall
free bleeding
how every address in Barbados
is 350m from the Assembly of God Church
smoke a cigarette I find
in an old lunchbox
where I used to hide cigarettes
back when I didn’t smoke
stare at the neighbor’s roof
water plants
talk to my dad on the phone
about his new tv
Tree House beer, the Buffalo Bills
with
Erin
talk about Pan Africanist circles
debate whether or not
“In Search of Lost Time”
is autofiction
scroll
scroll
scroll
laundry, whites
lunch
scroll
look at the photograph of Suzanne
in tears, in a tiled bathroom
look at the photograph of skinheads
in a room
with terrifying wallpaper
read shitty poems on the internet
send emails
listen to The Colours of Chloë
send three poems to Revolution John
pick the kids up at school
drive my son to Cedardale for tennis lessons
dinner
take the garbage out
stare at the neighbor’s roof
read submissions for Blood+Honey
drink Tamim Tea
remember when bath salts were a thing
remember the mortgage is due
try to laugh
remember an old lover
think about how I want to climb
into a jar
with that lover
preserved in amber
Damon Hubbs is a poet from New England. His latest collection of poems, Bullet Pudding, is forthcoming from Roadside Press. Recent publications include Chiron Review, Horror Sleaze Trash, Burning House Press, RESURRECTION magazine, Apocalypse Confidential, and others. Damon is a poetry editor at Blood+Honey and The Argyle Literary Magazine.