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A Little Poetry



The Beatles vs. Styx, 1981; Where the Streets Have No Name; Never Been Cool As Costello
From the most recent edition of the Synocpation Literary Journa l, three poems on music from the '80s, two of which feature in my...
deadwoodbears
May 17, 20251 min read


Cold Pizza
One of my Facebook offerings. A work likely still in progress.
deadwoodbears
Jul 13, 20231 min read


Of Love and Rust
https://www.harespawlitjournal.com/issue-9 “From dust we are born, and through rust we will return.”
deadwoodbears
Mar 1, 20231 min read


Sudden Weather
First place winner in South Dakota State Poetry Society's 2023 Landscape poetry contest. https://www.sdpoetry.org/blog-1/winning-landscap...
deadwoodbears
Feb 20, 20231 min read


After the New Moon
https://pttautumnmoon22.blogspot.com/2022/10/after-new-moon.html?m=1 “When I’m gone, stop at the edge of places we walked together and...
deadwoodbears
Nov 1, 20221 min read


Star Wars and Everything After, The Last of the Drive-In Movie Theaters
https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2022/07/todd-williams.html “My son will never see Star Wars, or at least the movie I saw in the...
deadwoodbears
Jul 21, 20221 min read


The Cosmos
https://www.corpuscallosumpress.com/summer2022?lightbox=dataItem-l5bnstxs “A thousand miles of two-way highway filled windshields painted...
deadwoodbears
Jul 17, 20221 min read


Love in the Time of Caldera, Last Night in Rapid City, Homecoming Parade
Published in the 2022 edition of South Dakota State University's "Oakwood." Love in the Time of Caldera https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/c...
deadwoodbears
Apr 21, 20221 min read


Lost Highways
https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2021/04/todd-williams.html “Old highways rarely die; they rise at the edge of farmers' fields."
deadwoodbears
Jul 2, 20211 min read


Silver Linings and Zoom in the Pandemic
I Sing the Baud Electric. https://sdpoetry.org/silver-linings-and-zoom-in-the-pandemic/ “I crash the party with reckless abandon,...
deadwoodbears
May 12, 20211 min read


Lost Socks
Todd Williams wrote this poem shortly after the death of his father, having gone through his clothes and belongings. He writes: “I was...
deadwoodbears
Nov 29, 20201 min read
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