Recenter Press
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews

table for one

BY JOHNNY RAFTER.


bare hands rip bread in a blanket 
of midday-restaurant-murmur 
in deliquescent February air 
              / on the table 
a glass of water and filtered sun 
one ceramic plate of yellow curry 
cauliflower 
the last morsels scooped with broken 
bread and fork—residual brush strokes of 
ochre

on a curb in hancock park

BY JOHNNY RAFTER.


a gardener gazes 
at some ordinary hose water 
and sees the sun glint
on the rivers that plow through gullies 
and canyons: 
the water that will wash away all 
that flawless landscaping 
and those white homes with far too many empty rooms

Johnny Rafter grew up in Lodi, California and currently resides in Los Angeles. He writes poems and songs and takes photos in spare moments to process thought and emotion. His favorite thing is pesto and his least favorite thing is capitalism. You can keep up with him on Instagram @jrftr.
  • About
  • Books
    • Rest of US by Richard Hamilton
    • evening primroses by Emma Loomis-Amrhein
    • Profit | Prophet by Patrick Blagrave
    • To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart by Schuyler Peck
    • The Good House & The Bad House by Doe Parker
    • The Road Is Long & Beautiful by Terra Oliveira
    • And Still To Sleep by Terra Oliveira
    • An Old Blue Light by Terra Oliveira
    • Processes: A Meditation by Terra Oliveira
  • Journal
    • Issue Four: Fall 2020
    • Issue Three: Spring 2020
    • Issue Two: Fall 2019
    • Issue One: Spring 2019
  • Interviews