• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Painted Bride Quarterly

  • About
    • About PBQ
    • People
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • Past Issues
    • Print Annuals
  • Podcast
    • Latest Podcast
    • All Podcasts
  • News & Events
  • Submit
  • Shop
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Contributors
  • Current Issue

Melissa Tuckey

Melissa Tuckey: Portrait of my Father

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

In black and white ink my father the rain coming down sideways umbrella overhead charcoal pissing the match as he tries to light the flame to cook our burgers while we huddle in a pop-up trailer bored with our luck A caricature of himself scotch-taped to the fridge for decades the man and his family […]

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, Melissa Tuckey, Poetry, Poetry 76

Melissa Tuckey: Another One

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

Midnight divides a man one self from another scotch from the rocks I am on a wheelie chair at the kitchen table listening to complaints we go like this ‘til 3 am It feels good don’t it New Years and nothing’s changed stone angels in the backyard doorstep with its pile of snow and I […]

Filed Under: Contributors 76, Issue 76, Poetry, Poetry 76 Tagged With: Contributors 76, Melissa Tuckey, Poetry, Poetry 76

Primary Sidebar

Recent News & Events

PBQ March Slam Session!

PBQ @ the Pen & Pencil!

PBQ Slam Session!

Slam Session with PBQ!

PBQ @ Poetry Tent!

© 2020 Painted Bride Quarterly. Contact PBQ: info@pbqmag.org