POETRY FORUM

LONE MOUNTAIN TURQUOISE

by K.W. Peery on September 21, 2018 :: 1 comment

In
this
Lone
Mountain
turquoise
set
in
sterling
silver…
I
see
traces
of
all
the
faces
I’ve
bluffed
along
the
way

editors note: Haunted? Or, humbled? Depends on the take… – mh clay

Comments 1

Cajun Poet J.D.C.IV
September 21, 2018 at 6:22 pm

I dig it.

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A bit about K.W.: Americana songwriter and Kansas-City-based storyteller K.W. Peery is the author of seven poetry collections: Tales of a Receding Hairline; Purgatory; Wicked Rhythm; Ozark Howler; Gallatin Gallows; Howler Holler; Bootlegger’s Bluff.

Tales of a Receding Hairline was a semifinalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards – Best in Poetry 2016.

Peery is a regular contributor in Veterans Voices Magazine. His work is included in the Vincent Van Gogh Anthology Resurrection of a Sunflower and the Walsall Poetry Society Anthology, Diverse Verse II & III.

In 2018, Peery is scheduled to have poems published in The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Big Hammer, San Pedro River Review, The Gasconade Review, Blink Ink, Rusty Truck, Mad Swirl, Outlaw Poetry, Mojave River Review, The Asylum Floor, Horror Sleaze Trash, Ramingo's Porch, From Whispers to Roars, The Rye Whiskey Review, Under The Bleachers and Apache Poetry.

Credited as a lyricist and producer, Peery's work appears on more than a dozen studio albums over the past decade.