Charles Rampp

rush creek with carp after i got the car and mother moved back to nearby town and found a fourth husband, she wanted me to come to supper, her brand of chili soup. it was spring and i hadn't seen her since grandpa's funeral three years past--the undertaker was paid now. i had some savings-- a new experience. she wanted me to be a partner in the diner her new man had bought for her-- seven hundred would do it,…

JANUARY 2007: POETRY by Charles Rampp rush creek with carp after i got the car and mother moved back to nearby town and found a fourth husband, she wanted me to come to supper, her brand of chili soup. it was spring and i hadn't seen her since grandpa's funeral three years past--the undertaker was paid now. i had some savings-- a new experience. she wanted me to be a partner in the diner her new man had bought for…