Three Poems From Dennis Gulling's The Blood Dark Sea

Here are three poems from Rockford poet Dennis Gulling's new book of Outsider Poetry The blood Dark Sea, published in May by Zombie Logic Press. The Rockford Pages, Rockford's team in the Outsider Poetry Slam League of America, recently took first place in the first tournament of the year. Gulling will be reading poems from this book Saturday, May 14th at CNVR in Rockford. The Blood Dark Sea is the 3rd book in Zombie Logic Press's Rock River Literary Series. 

ONE NIGHT STAND

She said she wanted

Something

To remember him by

So he bit her in the ass

And stole her purse

POINT BLANK

She gave him

That up from under look

And crossed her hands

Across her chest

Her blood red fingernails

Just inches from her throat

He couldn’t hear

What she was whispering

It might have been a prayer

It could have been fuck you

She sucked her index finger

And aimed it at him

Like a gun

Said underneath her breath

Bang bang you’re dead

And blew imaginary smoke

From her fingertip

While he checked his shirt

For holes

FRED CARVER

3 days after Fred Carver

Was shot dead

In a craps game

We all gathered

At Sparkman’s Funeral Home

For the visitation

I was standing

Behind Fred’s ex-wife Thelma

When she reached into her purse

And dropped something

In the casket

I leaned over her shoulder

And watched a black spider

Crawl up Fred’s face

And disappear in his hair