Steve Luttrell

You Don't Say

She would
always answer

a question
with a question.

An act of avoidance
so he thought.

An annoyance
at the very least.

All that he
wanted

to say
held back.

Bracketed.
Maybe for

another time.
If that time

should ever
really come.

The Hundred Dollar Haircut

He’s the type of man
who can’t get past
a clean storefront window
and not stop and
see his own reflection
smiling back at him.

He’s the very emblem of
good old “spit n' polish”
with a hundred dollar haircut to boot.

He’s, as they say,
his very own best friend.
A confident example
to the end
of contemporary man
and the narcissistic trend.

Sunrise

The siren-song seduces me to realms of gentle sleep and lost in the passage of a dream-drift of sleep-sealed space. Witness to a timeless array of images from “God Knows Where” and sunrise seems a long way away.

Steve Luttrell is the founder and publishing editor of The Cafe Review. A former Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine, he is the author of more than a dozen books. His most recent collection of poems, Paper Boats, is out from Igneus Press. Steve is a member of the Brevitas poetry collective and plays in a band.