Rooftop Poetry Club - Peter Ramos

Peter Ramos

Bio:
Peter Ramos' poems appear in many journals, including Indiana Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Verse, The Chattahoochee Review, and Poet Lore. In 2000, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Peter is the author of one book of poetry, Please Do Not Feed the Ghost (BlazeVox Books, 2008), and two chapbooks: Watching Late-Night Hitchcock & Other Poems (handwritten press 2004), and Short Waves (White Eagle Coffee Store Press 2003).

Poems:

Crossing Minnesota at Night

Moon corn
beneath white planets

the barns
humming in milk-blue light.

Mid-Century Modern

They rust now in the innards,
in the plumbing's guts. Under linoleum,
secret in dry-wall, torn paper, they
bloom beneath layers of paint.
They are jewels in pitch glue,
asleep in the bracebeams.

Their basement freezer gurgles
all night, the crudded screen doors
bang and bang.

Bluing the bedrooms,
the leafloam in window-wells,
they touch the porcelain,
gray aluminum,
the heating ducts and water pipes
with a quaint, dependable faith:

O toasters and cut-sandwich trays!
O State-of-the-Art Sunbeam,
Frigidaire, General Electric!
O voltage, long past
their darkness, still crackling.