SAMUEL PRESTRIDGE - POEMS

Samuel Prestridge is a post-aspriational man living and working in Athens, Georgia.  His first book of poems, A Dog's Job of Work, is currently seeking publication.  

​Leavening

​A chorus of suicides, old relations worn out
by marching in place, a whining
off an icy bridge, three ODs . . . no, four.
Four, how: the dead pile up since I’m not done,
not done rasping them faceless, not nearly done
amid this shifting about, this clattering,
good bones grated, ground, sifted
for a tone-deaf daily bread.

Such Faith as Is Available

​Above my house, student pilots
fly circles, figures.  I don’t mind
the low, day-long buzz.   They’re learning--

I believe this--how not to crash.