ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM
                        
***BIO*** Doug Draime emerged in the underground literary movement in the late 1960's in Los Angeles. Most recent books are: "Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980" (Covert Press) and "Bones" (Kendra Steiner Editions). Forthcoming from d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press, "Transmissions From The Underground" and from Coatlism Press, "Farrago Soup" Both large selected collections due in 2009. His diverse range of writing continues to appear in magazines, newspapers, and online journals worldwide. He moved to Oregon in 1981, where he still resides.
© 2009 zygoteinmycoffee Ink.
Home
Submit
Sun Dial
by Doug Draime
He waits for the
         the sun to
fall from the sky.

His family just shake
         their heads and moan.

He writes nonstop poems
         about the sun falling
from the sky.

His friends have stopped
         coming around: “He’s a weird one!”

He prepares to survive the sun
          falling from the sky,
by shaving with a sun dial.

His family meet him half way:
         they buy the shaving cream
and typing paper.
Oct. 2009
126