The patrons wore farm clothes
and drank cheap beer.
The drummer had only
a snare, bass and high-hat.
The guitar man was a genius.
There were pickled meats
in jars behind the bar.
Pig snouts,
that sort of thing.
Charles Rossiter, NEA Fellowship recipient, has been featured on NPR, at the Chicago Blues Festival and at the Dodge Poetry Festival in NJ. Latest collections are Winter Poems, Lakeside Poems and Green Mountain Meditations all from Foothills Publishing. Publications in periodicals include Bennington Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Thema.