Michael N. Thompson
Couer D'Alene
Frost on the harvest
Screams of catastrophe
For a Catholic town
East of Spokane
Where faceless boys
Drive Buicks
While the girls
Who have abortions
Keep their halos
And rosary beads
In bus station lockers
When they're lying
On motel room beds
With grade school teachers
In a blatant attempt
To display an Electra complex
Bio
Michael N. Thompson is the author of the poetry collections Dancing Inside The Mouth Of Madness, This Hollow Pierces and the recently completed Verbal Alchemy. His poems have been published by Nine Twenty Two Press, The Toronto Quarterly, Pooka Press, Rusty Truck, Asterius Press, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Deuce Coupe, Word Riot, Gloom Cupboard, Scythe Literary Journal, Full Of Crow, Heavy Bear Magazine and The Eunoia Review. Michael lives in San Francisco.