The Plains
Tiny bend in the road
Split pea soup
with Canadian bacon
Naked Mountain wine
No Paris in sight
save Virginia
Sassafras and Bayberry
More apples on the ground
than in the baskets
The Rail Stop
Cozy Cool Girl says,
“I’ve had worse things in my mouth”
Shop, Dine, Stay
Gas station sign
flashes GOO YEAR
Human Geometry
The pale, the drunk, the weary
collide
at the atom smasher
Winter Festival
Bobble heads
masked and unmasked
How flexible
are you?
Born in Washington, DC., raised in Bethesda, and now living in Arlington, VA., poet, writer, editor, teacher, publisher, Richard Peabody wears many literary hats. He taught fiction writing at Johns Hopkins University for 15 years. His Gargoyle Magazine (founded 1976) will release issues 74 and 75 by the end of 2021. He has edited (or co-edited) 26 anthologies including Mondo Barbie and A Different Beat. Guinness on the Quay, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2019.