Scott T. Starbuck
The sacred wildness is unlikely to survive
an alcoholic father,
the Korean War,
40 years in an assembly line,
and an inability to pay for a wife’s
cancer medication.
But sometimes it does anyway,
as when an unknown vigilante
jumps a fence in the dark
and spray paints a fleet
of black and white police cars
blue
as a field of aster.
Scott T. Starbuck’s poems have been published in several print and online journals. His new chapbook, The Warrior Poems, was a finalist at the 2009 Pudding House Poetry Chapbook Competition, and will soon be published by Pudding House.