27 February 2006 | Vol. 5, No. 4
Mailbox
You may already have won $10,000!
That's not what you'd hoped
to sift from passing traffic, no
Some clouds (cirrus), a drive to
the dentist responding to your
Some clouds (alto), a drive to
the grocery. Now you
have to put a check inside.
Have you seen me? No.
No help in sight, either: raising
the red flag started all this.
You get a notice telling you
to put your name on it.
You put your name on it.
About the author:
Mark Cunningham has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Practice, Parcel, and Dusie. A chapbook, Second Story, is on the Right Hand Pointing site. Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book tentatively titled Body Language, which will be a sort of diptych containing two collections, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters).
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Mark Cunningham at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 5, No. 4, where "Mailbox" ran on February 27, 2006. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
