A Tuning Peg

by Mark Mitchell | Apr 23, 2013 | Poetry | 0

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

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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.

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