John Yamrus…

he rubbed the wet

from

his nose

and said:

I remember

what the whiskey

used to do to me...

there was

this girl in Macon,

a nice girl.

Pretty

as a June morning.

I shouldn’t

have done what I did.

That’s

whiskey for you.

Make

you do things

you’ll regret for

the rest of your life.

John Yamrus is widely recognized as master of minimalism and the neo-noir in modern poetry. In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, he has had nearly 4,000 poems published in books, magazines and anthologies around the world. His writing is often taught in college and university courses. Three of his more than 40 books have been published in translation.