Thunderbird Inn

von Collin Callahan

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Thunderbird Inn chronicles the drug-addled misadventures of a man and his friend, Richard, on a transcontinental bender that bottoms out in the Florida panhandle. Fueled by cheap booze and various powders, the duo loiters on the fringes of a decaying America. The poems in the collection are often casket-shaped, not unlike shoebox time capsules. Intimate spaces to die inside.Or live. Or snort horse tranquilizer.Which the narrator and Richard do often in neon lit parking lots.Do they commit a few small crimes? Sure. But there is a loving tenderness to their dysfunctional codependence. The collection itself is shaped by addiction and routine. This is less a tale of recovery and more of a doom spiral.Like a seedy motel, Thunderbird Inn is inhabited by outcasts and weirdos. Perhaps near an interstate, in valley stitched together with telephone wires.