Scott Repass
Another Day Like This
A day like this? she asks
That’s all I need; another day like this.
Wet chairs on the front porch.
Her voice dripping on each syllable
with berry, wine-slurred lips.
Glass-blue puddles in black-brown mud.
The only ark that could have saved
two wave-worn souls like us
left this port days ago
while we got drunk in a waterfront cafe.
I take it all back – what I said
about rain, about floods, about that cemetery sky.
A full ashtray, a plate of olives,
another day like this; Good God.
Scott Repass is novelist, poet, educator, and bar owner He has an MFA in fiction from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and a Master of Arts from City University of New York, where he wrote his master’s thesis on body-switching movies. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Moon City Review, Film Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Houston and Nomadic Voices, The Heartland Review, Passager, and Fort Necessity. His novel Last Call Lounge was winner of the 2012 Houston Writers Guild Novel Contest. Scott currently lives in Houston, where he and his wife own Poison Girl, the best bar on the planet.