Tigers in the Tall Grass, Panthers in the Street by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

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Tigers in the Tall Grass, Panthers in the Street

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Ryan Quinn Flanagan

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Pro-life Poem

Office illumination

perched on the incandescent 

desk lamp precipice

talked down from jumping

by the janitorial 

services

there are things to live for:

industrial vacuums in the dark 

Memphis barbecue

pool skimmers with lizards living

in them…

The higher learning of schools 

of fish.

And do not forget the sacrifice of aging stairwells.

Anything that goes down on office buildings

is fine in my books.

Creaky with arthritis.

The stapler joining paper in bent 

matrimony.

While the garbage is emptied of its daily guts

so we can start again.

Picking at the Scabbard

Jubilant 

let’s celebrate

a first class page 

turner 

rosy Renoir asthmatics 

in line for the 

puffer

confetti

streamers

euphoric placards 

in colour

stone driveways 

long as old hatreds

and just as intractable

by the sword

for the sword

so good to finally 

meet you.

The only attempts on my life

have been made by me,

but there is still 

time.

Now tell me a little bit about 

yourself.

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RYAN QUINN FLANAGAN is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage.  His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Our Poetry Archive, Setu, Literary Yard, and The Oklahoma Review.  His personal website is: http://ryanquinnflanagan.yolasite.com/