Lawrence Bridges
Ghost Towns
Ghost towns on the mesas fizzle with souls. I go there as into a room forgetting why I entered. Everyone bets their treasure on deliverance, their confined eyes look out from damage, the love of anything, a balm. The papers in the driveways report the unnecessary news.
Lawrence Bridges’ poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press, 2006), Flip Days (Red Hen Press, 2009), and Brownwood (Tupelo Press, 2016). You can find him on IG: @larrybridges
