Archive - Poetry of William Shunn’s Main Wish Null

Salt Crusted on Automotive Glass

Between me and the decadent majesty of the salmon-red cliffs of eastern Utah, a ghost landscape stands sentinel. A poem.

Mar 1 •

July 2023

Mud thou art, and unto mud shalt thou return. Unless, that is, you're reckless enough to think you can transform yourself.

Jul 28, 2023 •

October 2022

Mechanisms for transmitting words and thoughts and emotions across the gulfs of time and space are not exclusively recent phenomena.

Oct 7, 2022 •

This morning I came downstairs to find that you’d thrown out all the pictures of us.

Oct 2, 2022 •

September 2022

A few lines in support of the proposition that a little whiskey never hurt a poem.

Sep 9, 2022 •

August 2022

You used to be such a sweet boy, tell me everything, ask me all your questions. What happened to you?

Aug 21, 2022 •

July 2022

Sometimes it takes a very special terrier to remind us humans that we’re more alike than we may want to think, and to bring out our latent civility.

Jul 29, 2022 •

May 2022

Police Recover Stash of Stolen Items

A poem written on the occasion of encountering an online news article featuring a close relative.

May 21, 2022 •

April 2022

Grand Motherfucker: A 23rd Century Epic in Verse

Some memories you can’t outrun no matter how far you travel, and some wounds even time cannot heal. So deal with it, you mope.

Apr 1, 2022 •

January 2022

Coney Island Lifeguard Blues

A poem written on the occasion of moving back to Queens after years away and once again riding the N train.

Jan 21, 2022 •

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