18 March 2009 | Vol. 9, No. 1
Folk Tune
Half or fast
asleep, two or three—
times my father pulls
up a wood chair and strums
the guitar, hums the bridge
over troubled water—
my Steelers pillow
PJ's with feet
oak there in the window
moonlight on the street.
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About the author:
Most recently, Beau Boudreaux won a chapbook competition by New Dawn Unlimited for his chapbook titled Significant Other. His poems have been published in the Antioch Review, the Cream City Review, and Margie. He is a poet and professor in Continuing Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans.
For further reading:
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