The Turning Year

By Brian Lawson

The Turning Year
This ones for the records.
2009 has been a complex novel,
from the prosaic Chapter One,
all the way to Chapter Twelve,
where I, the protagonist,
is left wondering why it all went down
the way it did.
In the opening pages of January,
how could I have ever known
that in two months time
Id meet the girl of my dreams,
and feel her, touch her in ways
I never thought possible?
How could I have known
that this connection would happen,
fulfilling my urges, yet at the same time
signing the order of execution
on the heart of someone who had only committed the crime
of trusting me?
But soon I lost them both,
left them hating me
and wanting to be rid of me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 27, 2010
• ISBN: 9781477164082

Brian Lawson

Brian Lawson was born in Norfolk, Virginia and has since resided in nearby Isle of Wight County. He is a poetry and short story writer and is currently working on two novels. Other than writing, his passions include music, professional wrestling, and psychology. He received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Old Dominion University in 2010.

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CONTENTS

THE TURNING YEAR

Normal, Or Not?

Haiku #1

Something To Consider

Haiku #2

Georgia Peach

Roadkill Demeanor

Screamers

Weep Instigator

Mascara

Anti-Ode To The Siren

Every Time

Cushion Part One

Haiku #3

Cushion Part Two: My Senior,

My Savior

On Being Inserted…

Haiku #4

Sweet Sixteen

Haiku #5

KKK

Kaleidoscope

Disillusioned

Haiku #6

Somehow The Same

The Turning Year

2010

OTHER POEMS

Finally, A Poem That Rhymes!

Gull Tanka

Thoughts In The Afternoon

Through The Eyes Of A

Paranoid Schizophrenic (Who

Has Not Yet Been Diagnosed)

Orgasm Tanka

Dead Wrestlers

Bullshit Tanka

Cat Paws

The Sadness I’ve Seen

Predator Tanka

Hawk On A Telephone Line

Forgotten Winds

The Girls Of Mother Nature

Marijuana Tanka

Oceanic

Serenity Tanka

The Saddest Thing

Sturm Und Drang

The Wolf

Contact

Two In The Field

At Twilight

Moonlight Tanka

Treachery

THE TURNING YEAR

NORMAL, OR NOT?

All the years,

forget the fears,

take what you can get.

Close the doors

to all the whores,

forget the past, that’s it.

I found a girl

that domed my world,

my heart she would protect.

But the lack of intimacy

has bore a hole in me,

gasping for air that is sex.

I’ve settled into mundane

but I’m content.

I found some safe terrain,

I took the hints.

Years over I’ve lived this life,

the same, the usual, the steady,

holding on to my Kimberly.

The countless nights,

ridiculous fights,

the hours asleep in bed.

Hoping for rain

to ease the pain

wonder like locusts inside my head.

A sweet repose,

I sometimes supposed

the haven I’d known is best.

But that won’t help

to make the squelch

on the beating inside my chest.

Acceptable stagnation,

overwhelmed imagination,

my brain like the inside of a brothel.

I live life the same old way,

content with what will fill the days,

but soon I’ll do something awful.

HAIKU #1

Another night in her bed,

A place I love to be,

And wishing I was