Not Enough Cred at the Crypt
Downtempo low glucose folk music
follows morose antler-punks
from venue to venue downtown.
They cannot tell that my fingerprints
are runes, my eyes leap woodland culverts,
coyotes and rabbits step in my footprints,
thorned trees carved the blood signs on my arms.
Pushcart Prize nominee, researcher & farmer Terry Trowbridge’s poems are in Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Carousel, Lascaux Review, Kolkata Arts, Leere Mitte, untethered, Snakeskin Poetry, Progenitor, Miracle Monocle, Orbis, Pinhole, Big Windows, Muleskinner, Brittle Star, Mathematical Intelligencer, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, New Note, Hearth and Coffin, Synchronized Chaos, Indian Periodical, Delta Poetry Review, Literary Veganism, and ~100 more. His lit crit is in BeZine, Erato, The /tƐmz/ Review, Amsterdam Review, Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, and Seeds. His Erdös number is 5. Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first 2 writing grants.