BLUE BAYOU

by Don Campbell

6
am

asleep
on
her
mattress

red
hunter's
sleeping
bag
pulled

over
our
naked
flesh

white
plastic
G.E.
clock
radio
clicks

KIIS
comes
on

Linda
Ronstadt
sings

my
eyes
slowly
open

it's
1978

I'm
18

Lydia
will
be
pregnant
soon

BAMBOO DISCIPLINE (remembering my father)

by Don Campbell

a belt

a coat hanger

a rolled-up magazine

a shoe

a strip of hot wheels track

a plastic wand
with a magnet
on the end
to move figurines

a wood paddle
with a hole
drilled into the center
painted blue
(for Webelos)

and

a bare hand
with a size 12
ring