Author Archives: schwervon

Show Poem: July 16, 2016 Indianapolis, IN @ State Street Pub #poetry 


Waking up in the sewing room
A world of possible attachments 

Rabbits dance on the top shelf
Safe from anxious dogs breath

Here we are free to roam
And sniff where we choose 

We  lose our chains
By not breaking the chain 

Love is clever and never perfect
It is sweet and low
It is Shakers of salt and pepper
Little tin cups
Old people at a table
Talking about their feelings 

Happiness lives in an
Infinite number of places 

Within the oily gears of a record player
On a park bench beside a grocery store
The skin of a turnip
The bottom of a peanut jar 

Listen to the birds sing
They sing when they are in love
They sing when they are hungry
They sing wen they are scared
We can’t tell the different 

The birds help us pass the time
They are not there to
Steer the energy
They are merely there to
Mask the distractions 

I prepared this for you
You greeted me with a smile
And that has made all the difference

Show Poem: July 15, 2016 Cincinnati, OH @ The Comet #poetry 


As the giant slowly removes
His foot from my chest 

I awake 

In dreams we make love to the fat
Play cards with the pilots
Pick my teeth with tree branches 

The morning is filled
With dirty carpet
And minor victories

Broken noses and
Stressed out waiters 

The quiche of the day
Is melting in the glove box 

Sticky rain and foggy windshield
The rules change with each pit stop

You’ve become kind with the
Dependence of strangers 

Coincidentally stereotyping
Scolding the scolder
Learning how the faucet works 

The hands are not always out to get you
Sometimes they are there to wave
To hold the flowers
Show us where the wind
Is blowing from 

The cat at the top of the stairs
Has been waiting for us
His eyes are speaking like Alien waves
We must get very close to hear them 

We must risk the hisses
and the sandpaper tongue 

Who knows?
It could be good news

Show Poem: July 14, 2016 Murray, KY @ Terrapin Station #poetry 


Charlie horse wake up
A future always yet to be determined 

Bananas are great.
I love bananas so fucking much 

But I was never meant to eat them

Inseminating silences
Aborting pregnant pauses 

The river is unstoppable
But easily avoided 

Discs of oil
Rays of light
Miles of tape and plastic wrap

Forgetting to remember
Remembering to forget 

Not fighting the repetition
Holding hands
Feeling the breeze on the tops
Of our arms 

Do you know the way to Dancyville?
Should we take the Music Highway? 

There is corn on the way
And perhaps a golf cart or two.
Churches and grave yards
Horses and more corn.
There will be long slow hills
And if we’re lucky, local honey 

Mountain clouds and a belt for all sizes
The air is fresh here
Even when it’s smokey
We blow it around
Feel it on our faces.
It whistle up our pants legs
Give us a little tickle in the rear

The air is not so bad here.
Love is in the air.
It can be
We must cherish it