Thank you to Rick Lupert of Poetry Super Highway for selecting me as Poet of the Week.  Here is one of the poems that the site published.

Never Seen So Many Records On One Wall (Johnny Cash Museum)

Influential centerpiece of country,

the once unsatisfied outlaw.

After the penitent tumult,

after the fearful swallow

of drugs and booze-

a daily threat to take him apart, note by note,

he gained therapeutic command

over his demons,

and found his own celestial guide.

He discovered ripples of kindness within,

He, one of the prodigals.

Enjoyed a dreamy joining with June.

He built his ring of bone:

Tough,

Strong,

Able to bear up under

the weight of stardom.

When he began to fade,

plunking sour notes

from his lowest guitar,

those whom he had inspired

came to prop him up,

gave him a stage sendoff

for the ages.

No ring of fire will ever touch him.