Back in the Bowery
Blind
In the Bowery
Like a pack of unwound
Souls
Scurrying into dead-end
Alleys
With a lust for broken life
Where we fell
Head over heels
Night after night
On the sidewalk’s
Scraped memories
In a town
Of faded tomorrows
And the punk
Neo-beat drumming
Of sharpened
Neglect
©2023 John Drudge All rights reserved.
John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of four books of poetry: March (2019), The Seasons of Us (2019), New Days (2020), and Fragments (2021). His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.