The three books that comprise the Backroad Love Story series are now offered at Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.
The bundle includes, “Self Inficted Heart Shaped Wounds,” “Country Songs and Backroad Love Notes,” and “Gas Station Road Map.”
Hope you enjoy!
Drops of us
Each night I undress
shedding myself of
clothing and consciousness
and emotion
then once I’m asleep
my thoughts of you
in joy and sorrow leak
then pour
into warm sheets
and onto the cold floor so
to keep them from seeping
between the floorboards
and gone forever
I’ve covered my room with
plastic pails and galvanized buckets
so that when I awake
in peace or in pieces
I can drink you back in
and as hard as I can try
not to lose any I cannot
help spilling drops
of us
down my chin and over my heart
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“Drops of us” originally appeared in Issue 3
of Indigo Rising UK, February 2013
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“Drops of us” is included in my book, “Gas Station Road Map, Backroad Love Stories, Vol. 3” which is available at Amazon:
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Review: “This collection is a must read. The pieces make you feel warm, fuzzy and loved; the perfect read after a long day. The stories bring to mind how good it feels to love and be loved.”
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Greetings from Backroad Poetry,
Our Poem of the month is, “My suction cup arrow shot in the dark.” This piece is included in the book, ‘Country Songs and Backroad Love Notes,’ which is on sale in ebook format during the month of August 2017 (paperback is $8.95). Below is a link to the book at Amazon.
My suction cup arrow shot in the dark
Sun swept and long day weary,
you look as perfect as a New Year’s Eve lipstick
after a Mid Atlantic carnival Labor Day.
I start by reading your blouse buttons in Braille
by single flame, queen sized bedroom candlelight,
like the way I wanted to check your body for ticks
after yesterday’s sunset walk along Maryland waterfalls.
Now lying behind you I kiss the small of your back,
realizing it’s the perfect place to hold my new love rather
than some old hurt. With one hand I trace a heart on
your shoulder blade while your mind straddles dreams
and dawn, and with the other hand I hold on tightly
to all that you’ve shown and taught me
as if you are the last thing I’ll ever want to learn.
And as all of the past pain, both yours and mine,
flows over the side of the bed,
and your little body is drowning
in our sea of sheets and blankets
I take careful aim with a carnival midway ring toss prize
at the moon out the window, and proudly make you
my suction cup arrow shot in the dark.
Copyright 2017 Steven Harz
Thanks for reading – I hope you enjoy the end of your summer!
This 5-Star ebook of poetry is on sale for 99 cents during the month of August 2017.
Review: “This is an interesting book, more like poetry than songs, but with great pictures placed in one’s mind through the author’s words. I liked the different poetry that for me, was like a trip down memory lane and those things we remember in the back roads of our mind and of life. This collection is the first I have read from this author and I like the descriptive style that really does create an image of life and love.”
Wrap around words
I study you at sunset
as you slowly bend
a stick of Juicy Fruit
against you tongue,
and smile at the way
your lips
wrap around words
just before they leave
your mouth.
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copyright 2016
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“Wrap around words” is included in the book, ‘Country Songs and Backroad Love Notes” which is on sale for 99 cents during August 2017.
Please enjoy this performance of Shane Koyczan’s “A Letter to Remind Myself Who I Am” – beautiful, as to be expected…..
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“Country Songs and Backroad Love Notes” is on sale for 99 cents during the month of August – get your copy today!
My pen is running dry, but if I work wisely
and put my words in the proper order,
and don’t include what we have said to each other,
it probably still has one poem left in it.
I can write a play, one act is all I’ve got in me,
and we can rehearse our lines as they should have been,
or change our old roles into new characters
by changing the parts that led us astray.
We can sit down at kitchen table,
with poker chips and a bottle of wine,
tip our hands a little, and this time begin with
the cards that we’ve yet to show each other.
With a half-empty book of stamps
and a poorly folded glove box Rand McNally,
I can cross the county and fill your mailbox
with post cards from all the places we’d circled on the map.
Or I can walk down a winding road with a flashlight,
a flask, and a pocket full of crumbled love notes,
alone in the heart of the autumn Maryland midnight
searching the abandoned park swing set for first date clues
and reasons why we failed to get this right.
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copyright 2017
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The ebook version of “Country Songs and Backroad Love Notes,” is on sale at Amazon for 99 cents:
Numbers
Two of us and six beers later,
huddled in the back seat of a ’78 Plymouth
parked in the dark behind the Eighth Avenue Church.
Shirt pulled off and skirt hiked mid-thigh,
exposing goose-pimpled inner thighs, and
discussing that morning’s 2nd period Physics class
While making out to Jackson 5 static from B104 FM,
traveling the airwaves from Baltimore 27 miles south,
and when your first hand touched my 501s
the thousand butterflies released in my stomach,
and their beating wings resulting in chain reaction chaos,
created a Category 3 hurricane in my Southern Hemisphere
just as we’d learned could happen earlier that day,
while holding hands under our desks,
in the fourth row of Bel Air High’s Room 19.
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copyright 2016
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“Numbers” first appeared in the book, “Country Songs and Backroad Love Notes,” which is currently on sale for 99 cents in ebook format (paperback is $8.95) at Amazon:
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