The Fiend in Row 6

February 2, 2012 by Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

The Fiend in Row 6

I avoided you and hid 12 tulips

In my back pocket.

Then I considered the dawn four times.

I did not look twice,

So I love a pen in my whore’s bed.

I’m the wild man from Row 6,

And I am confused,

Not by you,

But by mild prayer to God

Each shallow afternoon.

About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.