One Sentence Poems

Cody Badaracca Terra Incognita It doesn’t matter which way you run, the earth will swallow you before you reach the edges of the map. Cody Badaracca is still ambulatory and perfusing blood in Oklahoma City while trying to figure out how to extract his actual cranium from his metaphorical hind…and still make money in the process.

Cody Badaracca Poetry Scattering the words into the high caverns of my skull, I mince through, looking for ones that shine and try to make sense of them the way Creole-hoodoo-mystics read fortunes in coffee dregs and paprika, or crazies pick out secret government messages in cereal commercials.   Like Bigfoot and aliens, Cody Badaracca […]

Cody Badaracca Carpenter’s Lament “MOTHER #**#$%!! THIS @$*! I SWEAR THIS #$$$ $%% AND ##@ %^ YOU’LL $&% $#$$ %#%!!!$##%!!!” ( “Lo, for I know the pain of the hammer that misses its mark.”)   Like Bigfoot and aliens, Cody Badaracca is out there, somewhere, waiting.  

Cody Badaracca OKC Storms I awoke spooked as peals of thunder bowled over the clouds, my dreams galloping out of my head with the nightmares, nostrils flared, a kinetic train-wreck of muscles under wet brown skin and their tails raised high like flags, snapping in the dusty wind they kicked up in the now-empty corrals […]

Cody Badaracca Rio An old horse quiet and in the dark, his heavy mouth in my open palms, resting. Cody Badaracca grew up in North Routt County, Colorado but dreams about New Mexico and Louisiana because of heat and reptiles, and about Oklahoma because of a girl and the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.