Chris Coulson

Millions of Midnight Stars

Tomorrow, always the boring routine
but always too, the burning
romantic unexpected
unseen.

This piece first appeared in Go With the Floe: Free perVerse (Pinehead Press, 2019).

alcohol

those years were like

living in a cave

facing away from the

sun

with the bones of

the dog

I forgot to feed

This piece first appeared in The Midwest Hotel: Free perVerse (Pinehead Press, 2013).

Still Life With Seagull

saw a dead seagull
on the coast road, beak in the sand
eyes in the asphalt

pulled the car over
saw that one wing was straight up
and still fluttering

each car that blew by
blew her feathers like she was
alive, still flying.

This piece first appeared in The Midwest Hotel: Free perVerse (Pinehead Press, 2013).

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Chris Coulson is the rowdy writer of Nothing Normal in Cork, The Midwest Hotel, Go With the Floe, A Bottomless Cup of Midnight Oil, and Red Jumbo. At the moment, and for moments to come, he’s writing Babies on the Run!, a sort of children’s book, which will be published to the delight of supportive parents everywhere—and to show babies how to run, if they need to! Chris Coulson has been writing his way out of trouble since kindergarten.