All Souls' Cafe and Other Poems of Sanctuary

By Thomas M. McDade

Fifty-two poems regarding mostly places and situations that folks in need of consolation, respite, companionship, action or libation seek.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas M. McDade
• Release date: Jun 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310767401

Thomas M. McDade

Thomas M. McDade is a seventy-seven-year-old former programmer/analyst residing in Fredericksburg, VA, previously, in CT & RI. He's married, has no kids, and no pets. McDade is a 1973 graduate of Fairfield University. He served two tours of duty in the U.S. Navy. [e-mail]

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Poems 1—26

Poems 27—52

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All Souls’ Café and Other Poems of Sanctuary

By Thomas M. McDade

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Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to the following publications that have published many of these poems:

American Jones Review, Asbestos Boots on Beatnik Feet, Beers, Bars and Breakdowns

Bibliophilos, Bruhaha, Clark Street Review, Coffeehouse Quarterly, Concrete Wolf, Connecticut River Review E Pluribus Aluminum (Liquid Paper Press), Edgz, Eschew Obfuscation Review, Fuck!, Glue, !Hellp!, High Plains Register, Ken Again Review, Lines + Stars, Litchfield Review, Literary Burlesque, Literary House Review, Lost Beat Poet, Main Street Rag, Mudjob, Newsletter Inago, Our Wounds (Pitchfork Press)

Pawtucket Times, Penny Dreadful Review, Peripheral Vision, Pitchfork, Poetry Landfill

River Poets, Sawmill, Sink Full of Dishes, Skyline Literary Magazine, Spin Magazine

Standard Deviations, Staplegun, The Binnacle, The Lineup, Tight, Two-Sixty-Five Degrees of Grey, Web Poetry Corner, White Crow, Will Duchon’s Words & Music, WMNR, Monroe, CT, Yet Another Small Magazine, Zen Tattoo

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Poems 1-25

All Souls’ Cafe

Shakespeare & Company, Paris, 1985

The Thunder Lounge

Thin Old Men

Sassafras

Bridges

Coding

Jack Kerouac’s Grave

Bar Life with Chicken

Eddie’s Super Bowl

Blind

The Bat and St. Francis

The Good River Fishing Trip

Laughs, 1968

Bishop Bend Club

Western Sky

Shrine to My Lost Recklessness

The Wait

The Nautilus

Romancing Louise

Barhoppers

Shrines

Country Roads

Regrets

Shirt and Tie

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Poems 27-52

Words Inspired by a Paul Wernicke Letter

Dreamy Fugitives

Rigby

Motor Court

Propped

Openings

35 Benefit

The Drunk and the Aerialist

Aviation

Respecting Jackie Weber

Alberta

Parents

Bluefish

Waking

Hojo Logo

Bottle Shoppe

Where the Music Is

Valley Forge

Blasé

Hobie’s Angels

My Own Two Feet

Riley’s Bar

Better Place

The Sahara Man

To Sleep

The Slater

Crossing

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All Souls’ Cafe

A tall man, disciple-

haired, bearded and thin

says the sign’s last neon word

should rhyme with waif

since the accent acute got away.

Everyone here, a time or another

was a blues howling stray.

But never again in fluorescence dim

as alleys of sleep

where memories hang

like polyester blouses and shirts

made silky through