David A. Goodrum

Other Duties as Assigned

Hunt in the clear-cut scorched hills 
with butter knife and blindfold.

Farm in gravel. Barter with empty pockets.
Beg for old age, fully aware of

the fistfuls of dirt still to follow.
Bake in the sand.

Work eager bait onto the hook of being
wrong about most things, and fish

in self-deluded fog at the lake, restocked each day,
where little white lies must be tossed back.

David A. Goodrum is a writer/photographer living in Corvallis, Oregon. His poems have been published in Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon, Willawaw Journal, Spillway, Star 82 Review, The Louisville Review, among others. His photos have graced the covers of Cirque Journal, Willows Wept Review, Blue Mesa Review, Ilanot Review, and Red Rock Review. See additional work, both poems and photos, at www.davidgoodrum.com.