Jonathan Rentler
we the way-makers
the cobblers
the scholars
fishmongers & maids
back’us boys & groovers
pit brow lasses & gamsters
bo’suns sailing the seas
bondagers with sextons
find bottomers comfort
with jaggers & dragoons
paintresses with brush
arkwrighters & muleteers
codders, pecters
the loblolly boys-kissers
firebeaters
honey dippers
owlers & chiffoniers
the hoggars, tweenies & furriers
rovers, higglers & rustlers
the empresarios with perked ears
buddle boys with gaunters & gummers
shrimpschongers
vulcans & plashers
& lest we forget
the coxswains
Jonathan Rentler is the author of the chapbook Times Square Words# 1 (Yonkers International Press/Blurb 2017). His work has appeared in LOLA, Babbling of the Irrational, Fickle Muses, I-70, Ganymede, Unlikely Stories 2.0, and Midnight Muse.
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