Studio Gallery
Forgive the quality, it was taken on my iphone.

Jan-Tosh Gerling
Senior, English, Dallas, Texas
17th Street Lubbock, 1070



Jan-Tosh Gerling
Senior, English, Dallas, Texas
Salvation Army Thrift Store
(1420 Avenue J)
Do Not Touch
says the sign protecting
out of tune piano keys
stained like dirty fingernails.
Dented file cabinets lean
on each other’s shoulders,
jaws out with ancient tax returns.
A Coke machine hums,
cool insides like lake water.
Pristine mirrors
echo broken bed frames,
cabinets and an art deco toaster.
A pearly typewriter missing G
sleeps in its clamshell coffin
like an orphaned button in a pine armoire.
On dusty bookshelves
stickered with prices,
wait the porcelain angels and salt shakers
of dead grandmothers.
