Bart Solarczyk

Tami

Every inch a mile

& every clock eternity

I miss you, I stay drunk

I’m on my way. 

Three Months Now

The side of my neighbor’s house

looks like a yellow brick skull

with a green hedge beard

& dirty window eyes 

it watches past the driveway

watches me drink backyard beer

watches while I kiss 

the silver pipe

watches like it knows something 

I don’t but I do

gone three months now

she’s not coming back. 

Purple Hair & Podcasts

                       (for Ne’Cole)

Pain shapes our paths 

in ways

we’d rather not walk 

yet we arrive

voices breaking air

still sexy.

Bart Solarczyk lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his daughter, dog and cat. His poems have recently appeared in Big Hammer, The Razor’s Wine, Rasputin, Winedrunk Sidewalk and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He appears in G.A.S. #3, a Gypsy Art Show video that can be viewed on YouTube, reading five of his poems. His book Tilted World is available from Low Ghost Press and on Amazon.