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Shea McCandless


 

Shea McCandless lives in Brazil with his wife and two young sons.  American by birth, wanderer by nature, he's happy where he is because now it's his mind that gets to wander.  He numbers Arthur Rimbaud and Neil Gaiman among his favorite writers.

Desperation Row
 

Talk to me about the trash
lying behind
overturned boxes of yesterday's newspapers
and tell me how the moon
lights my yard
filled with refrigerators
and empty bottles of unsung beer

It's the bourbon you drink
while I'm lying on my back
trying to remember what day
was yesterday and what day
I collapsed on your floor

the floor
I see above me now

Where's the moon?

October: 2006