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POETRY


A selected bibliography follows with titles listed by date of first publication.


1) "DUST" -- Gothic Love Trip, 3/1995


2) "The Cane Boy" -- Fuzzy Dice, 4/1995


3) "The White Room" -- ShadowDance, 6/1995


4) "After the Show" -- Wicked Mystic, 6/1995


5) "Moonlight Theatre" -- Fuzzy Dice, 7/1995


6) "Suede Decades" -- Fuzzy Dice, 12/1995


7) "The High Places" -- The Red River Review, 2/2003


8) "Giant Dumb Cane" -- The Raintown Review, 8/2004


9) "Washington and Main" -- The Tipton Poetry Journal, 9/2004


10) "Majestic" -- The Tipton Poetry Journal, 9/2005


11) "Breeze" -- The Tipton Poetry Journal, 5/2006

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Moonlight Theater

By

Larry D. Sweazy


One-eyed monster snacks
And red Kool-Aid malts
Glow from the black and white TV.
Held in a smoky ballet,
Friday night under the covers,
No sad songs, except when Frank
Does in the little girl by the pond,

Ghosts at the window, mad-men
Lose on the street,
Ravens that peck at
The door make me shiver and long
To change the channel,
But I can’t, I’m scared too good.

The night’s still young, the
Sun hasn’t risen, the undead
Still walk the earth,
Awake in the other room,
Safe until sleep comes,
Until daybreak, until a
New nightmare comes.

I watch and learn to dream.
 		| Majestic
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| Larry D. Sweazy
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| Blue heron dreams and frog-throated
| Songs, sun-filled mornings against a
| Virgin pallet the color of a cat’s eye,
| At last wrest to my vision
| A welcoming grasp of a
| Forgotten friend.
| And yet, there in the deep,
| A guilt hung by rotted leather bindings,
| Just inside the tangled brush,
| Hidden and thorny.

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