Duane Locke

Duane Locke

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, he has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review....(more)

 

BROKEN TEETH


Her blue eyes burned
Holes in my thick darkness.
I peeped through the holes,
Saw a tied-up man,
The rope a manger and a mother,
The rope a hatred of popular opinion,
She, the white-gold haired girl,
Chewed away the ropes.
She broke her teeth,
My salvation.

 

 

 

 

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