Andy Cooper
/ GreyThoughts.InfoI’m not half as bad
as Quinn tells her friends.
Phone to her ear,
she spills us…
By Andy Cooper
Before she left for college,
we played stripped Twister
on sweaty summer nights
that set the forest …
By Andy Cooper
One ticket, last red-eye.
“I'll take what she's drinking,”
I say of the redhead ahead.
Glass in hand…
By Andy Cooper
A crystal chandelier hung above.
An evergreen candle flickered—
pine fresh, love, a tree in a forest.
We lay on the oak table…
By Andy Cooper
I’m not half as bad
as Quinn tells her friends.
Phone to her ear,
she spills us…
By Andy Cooper
Before she left for college,
we played stripped Twister
on sweaty summer nights
that set the forest …
By Andy Cooper
One ticket, last red-eye.
“I'll take what she's drinking,”
I say of the redhead ahead.
Glass in hand…
By Andy Cooper
A crystal chandelier hung above.
An evergreen candle flickered—
pine fresh, love, a tree in a forest.
We lay on the oak table…
By Andy Cooper
I parked—
“Understatement” faded.
Book in hand—
I sat by the river, rippling …
By Andy Cooper
Moonlight waltzed
on the river's ripples.
Steak drifted from Bill's Grill,
a soft haze …
By Andy Cooper
February 28, 2026—
a Valentine's kiss screamed,
shook the earth, engulfed
schoolgirls…
By Andy Cooper
A sky torn asunder—
killing fields, children suffer.
The gates of hell fell:
Boeing erased…
By Andy Cooper
Earth frozen,
dragging mistakes—
tides slip beneath ice.
ICE agents collect …
By Andy Cooper
Otis was, first and foremost,
a drunk—whisky in hand.
He’d sober up, or fail.
An angel could save…
By Andy Cooper
A crystalline overcast
mingled with Quinn’s resolve,
dancing on the tip of her tongue.
She’d tell her father…
By Andy Cooper
Powerful men strike a pose,
beaming,
pearly white teeth,
arrogant eyes gleam…
By Andy Cooper
… slammed the door,
shaking the framed family
photos on the oak walls.
Perhaps she’d melt …
By Andy Cooper
…falling beneath autumn’s crisp
gold and red leaves—
which, of course,
Madelyn can’t…
By Andy Cooper
… dark clouds funnel,
layered like an onion to peel,
fueling eyes, watering
with displeasure from…
By Andy Cooper
… in carved Jack-o’-lanterns
paved the way to Leona’s porch.
A skeleton in the window
left me in a fragile …
By Andy Cooper
… ruins rest on a hillside
in Temecula, California.
Bruised by past failures,
our savory intentions …
By Andy Cooper