New Poetry by William Wright Harris

Ode on an Egg

Jungian theory of

Universal Archetypes;

an egg symbolizing

fertility for a

small tribe in

Africa, for Sioux

Nation. Every culture

has a flood myth

and vampire lore-

dragons, serpents, worms.

The blonde hair of

Freya and Aphrodite-

The beards of Tyr

and Ares, pointing

towards war-

Symbolism of all

creation, frying in a

pan, on my stove.

- William Wright Harris 2012

 Ode on a Chicken Pot Pie

Reading Bukowski

is like

eating a Chicken Pot Pie.

American lamentations,

the sore muscles from

working fourteen hours a day

six days a week

under

the hot California sun

are the chicken.

The sauce is race track poems-

gambling in their

drunken

loneliness again.

Peas, carrots, and

other vegetables

and

spices are the

references to Tchaikovsky,

Pound, Van Gogh.

Those honest chinaski

poems the cooked flour and egg

baked into a crust

Word by word

page for page

bite by bite

on the end of a fork.

- William Wright Harris 2012

William's poetry has appeared in seven countries in such literary journals as The Cannon’s Mouth, Ascent Aspirations, and Write On!!! He is a student at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville, where I have been lucky enough to study poetry in workshop settings with such poets as Jesse Janeshek, Marilyn Kallet, Arthur Smith, and Marcel Brouwers.