a quarter-moon

in the abbreviated lamplight

of a very difficult lifestyle

wonders at the moon

of another planet

with highways and byways

purely fictional

on which imagined creatures

in putative cars

travel hither and yon

away from these cold craters

and lifeless rilles

in a tale that’s told

over and over again

no taleteller ever

ridden on a rail

qualifications of a memory

poems by christopher mulrooney

Christopher Mulrooney has written poems in The Tusculum Review, Hub Journal, Dunes Review, Parcel and Beeswax.

a gross example of unreceptacle behavior

she said know it this she said now draw it mild

but he went one better bitter that was wild

clodhopper

how this mite the city gets around
upon the polls of numbskulls in the ground