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Cartographer of the Navigationally Challenged

from Perfect Sleeping Weather by Larry Fulford

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    Scrawled into notebooks from the familiar comforts of temporary homes and the passenger seats of mechanically unsound vehicles adrift on the highways and back roads of America, Perfect Sleeping Weather is fifteen years of thoughts, observations, facts, and fictions hammered into a collection of poetry that, according to one reader, "sounds like a sigh."

    In this, his first book, writer/drummer/comedian Larry Fulford reflects on the usual -- life, death, love and leaving -- while still managing to name-check Van Halen. Twice.

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I’ve been outsmarted before
standing naked in a hallway
with the bedroom door locked,
after driving 40 minutes
just to bathe with someone
and wash the day off of me and away.

New York has my girlfriend this weekend
and Vermont’s got her.
Someone it was easy to be lonely with
and a smile the size of Texas.

Three states in one stanza.
Guess I always have been
more cartographer than writer.

Except I can’t find my way around the living room
of my own mind.
Keep stubbing my toes, tangled in the crossed lines
of semantic networks
and distracted by the scenery of memories.

Gone are nights spent clinging to the ladder
in a swimming pool
with no clothes on,
talking about monsters.
And gone are CDs borrowed
and never returned,
favorite shirts lost between the wall and the bed,
all the things you misplace
when you’re preoccupied with other things.

We’ve all got some of it somewhere:
a new closet
or box in an old attic
or basking in the sun
on a fold-out table at a garage sale for $0.75.
It all goes somewhere.
New York, Vermont, Texas,
Goodwill.

Now at night sometimes we speak electronically.
Tonight we did briefly
and she was angry.
But next time I’m sure she won’t be
(it all goes somewhere).

I’m sure she’ll be fine and say something
that makes me feel dumb
or makes me feel safe,
folded up in pages of yesterday.

“I made your big word longer,” she said.

And she had.

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from Perfect Sleeping Weather, released January 1, 2021

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