the red sledge hammer

so much depends on
a red sledge hammer

lying in the hard glass light
of high noon

at the edge of
the new bank site

on top of the stack of
white concrete blocks.


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(Previously published in The Subversive Agent, a print magazine that published briefly in the 1990's, edited by Paul Jentz. The magazine was originally founded by Thomas McGrath.)

Note: The above poem was originally written with uneven margins on both sides -- I write most of my poems that way -- not flush left as it shows above. I haven't figured out how to do uneven margins on both sides in HTML, which is one of the reasons I haven't posted many of my poems online.

I've gone ahead and posted this one because I surely don't want to "boycott" the blog because of a technical limitation. And I'll certainly post more poems in the future. (When I wrote the "Making of Eve" poem that I posted here earlier this summer, I intentionally used flush left margins, so I wouldn't have to deal with the HTML problem. But usually I find flush left margins too limiting, for poems.)

I'm not any kind of expert with HTML. If anyone knows a (more or less) uncomplicated way to do uneven both-side margins with HTML, feel free to let me know. Thanks!