Rustin Larson's Blog, page 5
August 9, 2023
flashes of nightfall, fire, the cricket’s song
Like a painter saturating the colors of Earth, exalting its geography from delirious beauty to war nightmares, Larson takes the reader on a dreamlike journey, filled with flashbacks, family memories, and ghosts. Themes of absence, loss and abandonment are set against a backdrop of fire and ice, in a landscape whose gardens, blooming with geraniums, lilies, marigolds, lilac, roses, orchids, honeysuckle and thistle, in “gangrened earth,” are reminiscent of Richard Matheson’s novel and Vincent Ward’s movie What Dreams May Come. –Helene Cardona
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Rustin Larson – Five Poems
Rustin Larson‘s poetry appears in the anthology Wild Gods (New Rivers Press, 2021). Recent poems have appeared in London Grip, Poetry East, The Lake, Poetryspace, Pirene’s Fountain, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. His chapbook The Cottage on the Hill was published by Cyberwit.net in April of 2022.
He is on faculty in Maharishi International University’s MFA in Creative Writing program.
A sparrow batters through one of the bell vents
holding a shamrock in its beak.
Everyone rushes to the nearest tavern.
It is time for a long walk and then for sleep.
I deliver your car (with the help of a friend)
like your newborn, your first born.
“Now slow, easy, don’t panic, and don’t press down
so hard on the accelerator; it will get you nowhere.”
You were the intrepid girl I kissed,
once in the doorway of your dorm,
once in the big blue cherry…
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