Alvah Allen

I understand you’ve got to set it all up, but, please, get Christopher Robin back to the 100 Acre Wood as fast as you can.

Leaving all her other wonderful qualities aside, my grandmother is the only reason any of us are here. She saved the universe

You can train dogs to do amazing things if you really work at it. Catch frisbees, go to the fridge and grab you a beer, pee outside…theoretically.

When you leave take that and that and that. And, that and that and that. When you leave take that

Four in the morning she puts on tap-shoes, empties her purse, and scatters things around. Lipstick by the water-heater,

Are you really giving me shit about where to put my appy’s Victrola? That was my Pappy’s Victrola, it’s got Jimmie Rodgers

The moon doesn’t care and neither do I, really, what I put here. The point is to have this poem look just like his

When you look like you just lost your best friend and your best friend looks like they just lost their best friend, then,

A frame made of branches, a canopy held together with vines, vines covered with grapes. Every night birds come

The princess of places no one’s ever been, unspoiled countrysides, pretty in ways no one thought of before. Miniature

I saw the number 5 made from red velvet, smothered with icing, and covered with jimmys. It was sweet, that 5, it was. I’ll never see it again. --March 9, 2019