Reviews

Adarro Minton is a fascinating writer of great power and will; his stories move the soul and warm the mind.
Allex Spires

Adarro’s work is brassy, insightful, brazen, and uniquely refreshing. You’ll find his writing utterly filled with ingenuous, unambiguous prose: his realism will make you lose yourself among the pages and you will long to return to his writing again and again. After reading Adarro’s work I can’t imagine walking away from his writing and forgetting about what I have read and you too, will carry his stories with you.
Dayna Winters

Minton's voice resonates with a tough and still tender realism. He gives spirit and flesh to the disenfranchised.
Marlene Rosenfield-Crawford

Richly atmospheric, Adarro Minton’s writing tenaciously captures quotidian details in a fresh and unique way, so much so that life’s seeming invisibilities become whole new worlds worthy of contemplative attention.
William Whalen

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Vote No on Prop 8

You and I are fucking

but we are not fertilizing eggs still

I wait at frosted windows during snowstorms

and warm up pot roasts (with my faggot ass)

that tasted better at six-fifteen when you should

have walked through the door and stomped grey slush

from your foots and said It’s cold out there

while touching my mouth with your lips do you see how cold my mouth is

our faces are frozen together.

Stay at home Mom

She discovered lies, an asp wrapped around her marriage.

She stole an internet love look.

She met two black strangers in a desolate parking lot.

She fucked them both, hidden behind rusted leaves.

She came home, woke her husband’s left-alone flaxen baby girl.

(the infant had slid out of her seven months ago like a green turd)

She fed the brat’s sniveling pink mouth with milk from her soiled sticky breast.

She drew gravel from her nostrils and spat on the boiling beef stew prepared for her spouse.

She served his 6 o’clock meal and slippers dressed in a crisp Donna Reed apron and smiled him a kiss.

The Crack Head

We ran low.

While smoking over Murt’s house

so we sent him out for more but he was cut down

By five pieces of lead spinning quickly I stepped over

his staring eye after blood running down the street to trap

the fleeing gunman to beg him please sell me two more.

The Ghetto

Maria saved her own and her three beige children’s

yellow project piss in large Hellmann’s jars,

and threw it out of her neat third floor apartment window

at the crack head bitches she heard

loudly sucking dick at all hours of the night.

The Widower

Crows are in late autumn trees

and you are gone, Empress.

I am broken in the places

you have touched me.

The chain around my neck

is your heavy hands and they are cold now,

smoke leaves my mouth.

My heart beat is a red apple.

I perch on stiff chairs a marionette, unused,

with tattered ropes; freed from your loud party.

I am a smoky jazz trio sadly playing.

I am dark in drunken saloons

with no money for more wine.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

A Break-up

a paper cut,
a dark night table stubbed toe
-----(the un-funny funny-bone)
a vibrating mosquito,
the reflected eyes of a pink pull-over cop,
a dropped sweet vanilla ice cream cone,
a baby crying plane
-----(trapped on a three-hour fleeing runway)
a dog shit heel step,
locked in keys,
all this, and the loss of my love.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Mom I’m gay…(period.)


To stop bashing rock waves,
Mother went to the African butcher
for the blood of a slaughtered lamb;
and cast red spells over me.
To uproot the steeped in earth,
she paid the Jamaican Obeah woman
for the hair of a virgin gal.
To break the slashing blind tornado,
my comb was given to a Haitian Vodun;
who was immediately possessed
by the god Damballah.
Drums were beaten.
Stones were tossed.
And they all danced by fire,
possessed,
on a dark night beach.