New Poetry by James Mirarchi

Thieves

From a pulpit

a reserved raccoon with a love for classical music

quietly berates me

for fraternizing with some reality TV raccoons

 

Earlier

these celebrity creatures had burglarized my home

stealing my plasma television and Stephenie Meyer book collection

They even mooned my neighbors while fleeing with their cameraman

But the sycophant I am – still decides to hang with them

 

They teach me the fine art of garbage-sniffing

Climbing trees in Zorro masks

And alluringly posing with head tilted down in attack stance

All telecast for the world to see

I’m even recruited as a videographer

for an all-raccoon Pilates show

 

I’m so honored to be associated

with these exemplary extroverts

so different from their more shy nocturnal relatives

- James Mirarchi 2013

James Mirarchi grew up in Queens, New York. In addition to his poetry collections, Venison and Dervish, he has written and directed short films, which have played at festivals. His poems have appeared in Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, Poydras Review, gobbet, Boyslut, The Mind[less] Muse, Dead Snakes, The Recusant, Subliminal Interiors Magazine, and Clockwise Cat.