Reflections
Prescott Arizona
By A. D. Winans

1973, shabby boardwalks
with mud lined bars and
Barry Goldewater stares
Three young Indians in a bar
Drinking rotgut whiskey
Until they’re drunk enough
To wallow through the mud
Hoping to run into a cowboy
On their way home
Down the street another bar exudes
Western Music while
Flabby middle age bodies
Huff their way around the
Dance floor where
A Sheriff’s Deputy guards the door
Outside in the dark of night
A woman dressed in red
Wobbles uneasily along the boardwalk
Having worn out one bar
Tries on another

A.D. Winans is a graduate of San Francisco State. His poetry, prose and photography have appeared internationally in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Rattle, Poetry Now, City Lights Journal, Poetry Australia, the New York Quarterly, and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. In 2004 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN Josephine Miles award for literary excellence. In 2007 Presa Press published a book of his selected poems.