Daniel Edward Moore
Daniel Edward Moore lives in Washington on Whidbey Island. His poems have appeared in Rattle, Phoebe, Southern Humanities Review, and others. His work is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Texas Review Press, Action, Spectacle Magazine, and The Meadow.
His book “Waxing the Dents,” is from Brick Road Poetry Press.
You Did This to Me
Proof beauty can be blamed,
proof faith can lure the body
into dangerous hands.
proof faith can lure the body
into dangerous hands.
Or at least a troubling conversation
strangers have about the soul
before the next drink comes.
Proof thirst is a dry martini’s
dream of bright red lips.
Proof the olive’s phallic branch
can inspire doves to fly. Or at least
praise a murder of crows
bruising the sky with panic,
before black feathers of silk
fall on a breathless body.
Proof betrayal in aisle number 5
next to the hammer and nails
is all a father ever needs
to forget he has a son.
