Saturday Poetry - 'Morning in the Burbs' by Marcus Wicker -

Saturday Poetry – ‘Morning in the Burbs’ by Marcus Wicker

This week’s Saturday Poetry matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Morning in the Burbs’ by Marcus Wicker. He is the author of Silencer (Mariner Books, 2017) and Maybe the Saddest Thing (Harper Perennial, 2012), which won the National Poetry Series and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Poetry Foundation. Wicker is the poetry editor of Southern Indiana Review, and he teaches at the University of Memphis.

I have matched mobile art by @hereinmyownskin_365 with this image untitled.

If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include the hashtag #theappwhisperer on any images posted to Instagram. This will mean we will be able to consider it.

To view the others we have published in this section, go here.

via Poets.org

But God, I love the cul-de-sac

at seven a.m., I can’t help it!

This wind-streaming-between-

grass-blades point of view!

But this punctuated lawn

I stand upon! The family

of shrubs, flat-topped & shaped

into a question mark:

the eye of its mouth, my favourite

standing place. A painter’s steel

scaffold: against the neighbour’s

gutter like a concert glockenspiel.

The souped-up air conditioning:

in monk octaves. The sheer

wash of it all, water rushing

from a bucket: A man soaping

down his Saab, tie sly tucked.

Two cable guys sharing a joint

in a horseshoe drive: But God,

I envy their temporary sweet spot:

snippet of carefree chummery.

This mum machine hard at work

before work. The: The nothing

getting in. The nothing getting out:

Please support us

TheAppWhisperer has always had a dual mission: to promote the most talented mobile artists of the day and to support ambitious, inquisitive viewers the world over. As the years pass TheAppWhisperer has gained readers and viewers and found new venues for that exchange.

All this work thrives with the support of our community.

Please consider donating to TheAppWhisperer as this New Year commences because your support helps protect our independence and we can keep delivering the promotion of mobile artists that’s open for everyone around the world. Every contribution, however big or small, is so valuable for our future.

click here to help us