Dumb Waiter: 20 Poems from the Inside

By Thomas Porter

Exactly 20 poems about love, lust, loss, and life, plus one poem that emerged from my subconscious of its own volition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Porter
• Release date: Aug 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463596074

Thomas Porter

Author of The Power to Live, a story of girls sold into slavery in San Francisco who break the grip of their oppressors with unexpected powers, and raw strength of will, inherited from their Native American ancestors. Author of The Fallujah Strain. This short novel watches Maya develop from a selfish young girl blessed with blood immune to Ebola, which allows her to command others to serve her, into a young adult who may help change the world.

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Dumb Waiter

© 2019 Thomas Porter

ISBN: 9780463596074

Contents

Now I Know

Driving to a Girlfriend’s House at Night in a Snowstorm

Lies on Paper

A Woman Outside Victoria Station

Death Shadows

Field Just Before Sunset

Were You Ever Here?

The Beginning

A Passing Year

Paranormal Entities

Melting Stones

Save These Words

Hard as Marble

The Killing Zone

Accusations

The Black Bag

Trust the Floor

Picking Up Take-out on the Way Home

Dumb Waiter

Now I Know

The space inside the stored pop-up camper is dark as pitch,

as small as a dumb waiter.

That's me, the dumb waiter.

My older brother and his friend told me to climb in.

They told me they'll let