Stone Music

By J.P. Cashla

"Life, death, love, sex, regret, despair, magic, tragedy, humor, illness, family and a cast of characters
all told from the raw vantage point of the bar stool, washed down with a pint of Guinness and a heavy metal soundtrack. Cashla is a unique and ferocious voice. He delivers full contact, edgy and often moving poetry with the skill of a seasoned and unapologetic bard."

Roy Baker

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481751049

J.P. Cashla

Cashla is an American poet of Celtic descent educated at Catholic schools, the setbacks of a serial entreprenuer and the mud of a hundred of rugby pitches.

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/23/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-5103-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-5104-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013908677

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CONTENTS

On Day The Emeralds

The Mayan Apocalypse (Didn’t Happen Again)

Sail

Car Bomb (Au Tain, Boston)

Coffee

Zombiland

The Burr

Cut Grass

Fever

My F’ing Poem

Muse

Lycra

New Gorillas

Vintage Single Barrel

War

Ava

Paisley

Broken Child

Dame Mirren

Denzel And Duality

Charlie Sheen

Apparation (For K)

Storm

Tigers (For Danny Cohen)

Vapor

Kilimanjaro Leopard

Lament

Seriously, It Was No Big Deal Getting Over Your Amazing Ass

Requiem

Heron

Isis

One Track Ruby

Plague

The Flanker

Vitiations

Perturbation (Brewers Art, Baltimore)

Your Mother Came To Me

The Phoenix

Wailing Beast (For Anne Marie)

The Ebb Tide

Unborn

Tan Jack

Shock Trauma

Jungle

Morning…

My Poem Is On The Web

Mouse

Freaks

The Shoe Salesman

Dining Alone (Death Of A Coffeeman)

Sleens And Mules

Green Dress

Journaling

The Judas Branch

About The Author

Bio

For:

A chuisle mo chroi

ON DAY THE EMERALDS

Whiplash girl child in the dark

         Lou Reed

In Marrakesh

The bizarre was flung

Wide with bright silk

The smell of spice

Exotic still for all your liquid absence…

Under the hallucinogenic

Palms beneath the blue sway

At the infinite patterned

Sea

On a piercing Polynesian beach

Air collected in the folds

Clean heat and cold salt

But the gentle

Arch

Of your pressing foot

Had not pried apart

A single

Grain of sand…

In Tuscany

There are sunflower fields

Of bowing yellow

Flanked by sighing

Olive trees

The hum of sunning grapes

Burst fat on twisted vines

Your white dress

Of sinful cotton

A ghost

At your brown thigh

Shining like mirage…

In Galway

Snug wrapped

At bay the elfin wind

Folded

Musk wet lanolin

Candle glass

Foaming black droughts

Our