Poetry by D. P. Barbare

Danny P. Barbare resides in Greenville, South Carolina. He attended Greenville Technical College. His poetry has recently appeared in Clamor and NoD.

Works by D. P. Barbare have been previously featured on In Parentheses.

The Pizza Parlor

Out of the rain
two
slices of pizza
mushroom, sausage
pepperoni and a
drink, silverware
wrapped in a white
napkin, number sixty-one
ice in a Styrofoam
cup, diet Pepsi
spits out of the soda
fountain, a cap
a straw, extra
brown napkins
watching the football
game
ah, dinner served.

Bon Secours

A statue of Christ holding up the sky
fearful people
come to thee
stretchers and iv’s
doctors and nurses
angels
dressed in blue,
patients in God’s
hands
that looks down
over them
the chaplain says
a prayer, Jesus sends
his followers out
into his world.
Physically and spiritually,
faith and grace
standing up from a red wheelchair.

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