The guitar is so lonely
It’s contemplating divorce.
Strings are dusty
And slack in the case.
Its pick guard wants
To be scratched
And the frets
Are screaming to feel
The six repeated chords
Of any Dylan tune.
Photo by Dave Fallis
A Tuning Peg
by Mark Mitchell | Apr 23, 2013 | Poetry
About The Author
Mark Mitchell
Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock and Barbara Hull. His work has appeared in various periodicals over the last thirty five years, as well as the anthologies Good Poems, American Places,Hunger Enough, and Line Drives. His chapbook, Three Visitors will be published by Negative Capability Press later this year and his novels, The Magic War and Knight Prisoner will be published in the coming months. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the documentarian and filmmaker Joan Juster. Currently he’s seeking gainful employment since poets are born and not paid.