The Tattooed Poets Project, Day 19: Adam Deutsch

Today's poem comes to us from Adam Deutsch:

Natural Wonder

1972 MGB drops chunks

of rusty floor

at a parking spot above

the Grand Canyon.

Local girl brings me

a blood orange and a rose

she’s fashioned from tin foil.

There should be a dance with her,

a margarita

for thousands of years of majestic

erosion we witness,

a cataclysm honored,

glorious perpetual weather,

unhelped or stopped.

A draft of this poem previously appeared in a publication called The English Record.

Adam Deutsch is originally from New York, and has an MA from Hofstra and an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in No Tell Motel, Coconut, Juked, Rain Taxi, and Anti- among other places. Formerly of the Ninth Letter editorial staff, he is currently the Critical Prose Editor of Barn Owl Review and is the founder/editor of Cooper Dillon Books. He lives in San Diego, CA.

Please check out a couple of his many tattoos over on Tattoosday here.