
Up North by David JIbson

A poem for the holidays. Originally published in Third Wednesday in 2018.
Film Noie: A Celebration of Film Noir in Poetry.
I love old films and I especially love film noir. In this collection I celebrate some of the characters, plots, and familiar settings of film noir through poetry. Inside you’ll find dark cityscapes and blind alleys. There are private-eyes, taxi dancers, thugs, mugs, crime bosses, night club sirens, crooked cops, gun molls and a morgue full of bodies. The newsreels and the previews of coming attractions are done. The projectionist is nicely drunk. Settle back in your seat, claim the armrests on both sides and enjoy the feature. – David Jibson
Poem Noir is out of print, but a digital edition is now available free to anyone from the author’s website.
https://davidkjibson.com/
Watercolor wash and haiku by David Jibson (the full moon of January is the Wolf Moon).
Symphony Number 11 in The Decadent Review: https://thedecadentreview.com/corpus/symphony-number-eleven/
Thank you to editor, Dimiti Kaufman.