13 Free Verse Poems
A Chapbook in Two Parts
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My gal’s beater and us under the confluence of booze and the city ahead rising-up in the sky as we joyride over this bridge to the University. My eyes spark- out to this passenger’s mirror and its image of the Ohio River: How that river recedes and then diminishes in this darkness and filth as tears of happiness suddenly begin to fall, like beautiful and ancient stars, from the cathedral of my mystic ragamuffin’s wonderful, green eyes onto our Jameson bottle half-empty between her thighs.
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About the Book
This Chapbook takes the reader on a journey from college, into a mental collapse, inside the confines of a psychiatric ward, and, after brief homelessness, the Poet’s search for Meaning and Truth continues in the small and quiet town of Germantown, Ohio.
About the Author
Alex Missall began forming his poetic voice at the University of Cincinnati, where he studied Creative Writing. There, his early influences were Samuel Beckett and Raymond Carver. After leaving college, he worked various jobs in Ohio, and veered toward the poetry of Rilke and the lyricism of Bob Dylan. However, Alex’s voice is uniquely his own. One idea connects the different poetic voices inside this Chapbook. The idea is love, a love which is the reward from tough and tragic experiences.