A rock and my disinclination to kick at it

• Library sink tableau
• two pages hardcore porn
• small sunscreen tube

• The bride and the groom
• and a little brown-haired girl
• sticking out her tongue

• Fourteen hours
• waiting for this train
• hello again, wink the stars

• The spider, quiet
• center-web, disdains
• raindrop pearls

• Election Day
• Spider strands over the glass doors
• silver in the sun

• On the road: a rock
• and my disinclination
• to kick at it

• Russet leaf shower
• benediction to one man
• walking with his dog

Andrew Hamlin likes to photograph shoes and write about dog shit. He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, where he resides today. He attended the Evergreen State College, where he wrote and edited arts coverage for the Cooper Point Journal. He is the film critic for the Northwest Asian Weekly, and he’s published arts coverage and criticism in the San Diego Reader, Village Voice, Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, Goldmine, and other publications. He misses Helen Wiggin. Hamlin’s website is andrewhamlin.org.