Cornbread crumbs cascading
Down hairless, burly chest
Honey butter eulogy of afternoons
Spent in-office
Steel toe boots untied by the door
From nights alone prodding factory floor
Infants snooze in cribs or with wife
I bashed a mouse’s skull in
With the Pioneer-Woman’s bread knife
Standing in the kitchen naked
Feral & Australopithecan
— RON ARBUCKLE
A former minister, then machinist and now accountant, Ron Arbuckle lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma, with his wife & two kids on their family farm. After secretly writing it over the last two and a half years for his wife, Ron recently self-published his debut novel, A Matter of Design, and is currently working on a second novel while exploring poetry and other short forms of literary expression.