Spun Out

Four bald tires now,

tread eaten away

Countless milestones

nobody noticed

Cruising through drive-ins

Onion rings and fries

Crazy on the side

Highway 61

the gateway journey

Minnesota blues

Commercial detours

Next patch of black ice

your long expected

running out of time

© February 16, 2012 Barbara Moore

Gutter Eloquence Volume 21

Empty Chest

The coffers crept away

leaving formulas for failure

scripted in bled-out ink

impotent as your word,

your marker, your johnny

hancock come lately

much too late for

happily ever

after the final heist.

© December 2011 Barbara Moore

Guerilla Pamphlets Volume 19

Your Silence

Your silence does not roar

Its impact lies in subtlety

too clever to dissect

and far too twisted

Its iron hardness

capable of speech

preferring none

chooses instead

to leave me dangling

like a participle

with no rope attached

© November 2011

Guerilla Pamphlets Volume 18

Not Close to Golden

Addicted to you

and the paranoia

you sowed in

me  I rip-clawed

banshee-wild

scratching out

from your eyes

hot flames

once devouring

minuscule hope

hiding out  in

the cracks  of

symphysis  col-

lapsing   under

beings  you hot-
pricked

one sorry

jab  at a time

from the
slithering spike
of your slippery psychopathy

© 2010 Barbara Moore

How Dirty Girls Get Clean: 

An Anthology of Wicked Women Writes, 

Art and Subversive Scholarship

Edited by Rene Diedrich – Creative Consultant: Fiona Helmsley

Art Soldier Liberated Press

© 2011 by Rene Diedrich