Sunday, January 22, 2017

Quartet: Big City - Moongarlic # 8 This linked verse began as rubbish; it is still rubbish ..After all, it closed Moongarlic right down But Sheila Windsor, a determined woman of sturdy .( add cliche) .. who writes wonderfully meandering links and knows the definition of classical liberalism



Quartet: Big City


Would rather cut off a limb than turn down a fellow poet in need, of Normal mood and In no acute distress. A mildly antalgic gait attests to her conviction. radiant stars Prior to Acceptance of the big valley to Moongarlic she was alert and oriented to person, place and time. Moongarlic was Well-developed and well-nourished, also. it wasn't just another pretty face habituated by point seeking haijin carving notches in the frame that held that liberal arts diploma.
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alight mowed fields and stubble --
rise of the new moon     Dinner Break be back too late to save this stanza. Like a bad translation from post war Italian cinema.. Editor

big city, bleak and cold,
I'll always call it home


snow geese take flight,
too soon for leaving
or early to return?


out of breath and a little hoarse
from shouting in the wind


***

beside the Mississippi
boundaries and borders
just lines upon a map

 
 though oceans come between us
pray never shall we part


lighting up a cigarette,
coffee set to brew,
 she types a "Dear John" letter


redolent of a summer day,
their longing resigned to torpor


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children being naughty
 get Gramma's swift rebuke,
'flies will stitch your mouth shut!'

headlights at their vanishing point,
 twilight spurs them on
 
 
narratives by design
personal and political
every day


a little bit stoned
the graduate wanders off


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Golden Week queues
stretch around the corner
a cine-plex record
 

no matter how they spin it,
it's one more step too far

 
a glimpse of your desire
in blossom reached its peak
above a ruined garden


the last of my tokens
clink into the turnstile






2 comments:

Bill said...

Very nice. I can hear the clink of those tokens.

bandit said...

Another pique in interest; one more final draft