Witch Hazel
sleek adroit
Steampunk
dreams
naked thrift shop
information
rain
file cabinets
filled with hair
a flea market
that sells fleas
a white elephant sale
that sells albino elephants
at the foot of
mannequin mountain
where the best
rascals live
and gallivant
in their natty
dreads
and goggles
Richard Peabody wears many literary hats—poet, author, editor, publisher, teacher, mentor. The author of a novella and three short-story collections, he taught graduate fiction writing at Johns Hopkins University for seventeen years. Gargoyle Magazine/Paycock Press was founded in 1976. His most recent poetry volume, Guinness on the Quay, was published in Ireland (Salmon Poetry, 2019). The Richard Peabody Reader, a career-encompassing collection, was released in 2015 by Alan Squire Publishing, as the first book in their ASP Legacy Series.
