Red Booth Review • Volume 10, Issue 1. February 2014.

Mesmerine Adwalla

Poetry
Dan Jacoby
BZ Niditch
Peycho Kanev
Holly Day
Annabelle Edwards
Matt Morris
Martin Willitts Jr.
Erren Kelly
Andrew Sacks
Howie Good
Bill Edmondson
Barry Yeoman
Bill Hoagland

Photos
Chrystal Berche
Charles Byrne
Mesmerine Adwalla

Everything Must Go • Matt Morris

It began with an ashtray
thrown onto the lawn.
Wall hangings ensued–mirror,

sconces, a knock-off Seurat
in shards, frame & all.
A mahogany coffee

table joined the heap,
followed by lamps & matching
blue wing chairs that fairly flew

out the door. The couch
barely budged, but provided
time for reflection

about what to fill it with,
the emptiness still inside.

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Matt Morris has published in various magazines 

& anthologies. He lives on what remains of a f

arm on the side of a hill in the middle 

of nowhere with his schnauzer Barkley.

Bunch of Junk About Chrome · Matt Morris

Remember when the world sparkled. How
the gods shone with polish in bygone days,
their glistening munificence shellacking
their golden, self-damned heavens, layers

of enamel glossing over the nimbus
haloing you. How light afoot you gamboled
through the iridescent drifts
of that kaleidoscopic fall. How brilliantly

you played the glockenspiel & winked
at the scherzando & phooey! How
would you ever take a shine to me?
The me reflected everywhere,

from the Studebaker’s buff chrome bumpers
to the once popular stovepipe hats,
back then fashioned from silver & tin.
Against the glint of history, you stand apart,

your face inside the coin jar ever
beaming, ever radiant to this day,
untarnished by the change waxing over you
in a glimmering, shimmering heap.