Andrew Dooley is a graduate of Rhode Island College with a BA in English/Creative Writing. He has published a short story titled “creature!” in the Spring 2015 issue of their literary magazine, Shoreline, as well as a collection of poetry titled Shine Walker on Amazon.com. He works full-time as a business office manager in Westerly, RI.

flicker

tumble toes, tingling
fingers and mumble woes.
listing what lingers
and rumbles the undertow.

maddening tinkers and
bumblebee undertones.

half a bombastic and trapeze
apartment for you to assume
is a place made for you. it’s
a home, a fantastic, a dream
you thought true; a disease
colored deep in your favorite

blue.

tumble toes, tingling
fingers and mumble woes.
listing what lingers
and rumbles the undertow.

fit for a ringer and dressed
to the upper bones.

craving creation and wishing
to be alone. billed to a grifter
that’s raving about how
erasure is missing the last
half an invoice and waiting
to pay with a fifth of a

drifter.

tumble toes, tingling
fingers and mumble woes.
listing what lingers
and rumbles the undertow.

stumbling into a crowd
throwing colored stones.