Seven Poets this month grace Tuck’s pages for your profound pleasure: Stephen Fitzsimons, Ilona Martonfi, AJ Huffman, Pearl Ketover Prilik, Susan Fanoga Cobrado, April Salzano and Shelby Stephenson all offering words to breathe alongside your thoughts
SCREAMING IN A VACUUM JAR
By
We sit
silent
The smell of the
last battle’s carcasses
hanging over
breakfast table
Your armour, golden
You proudly display
your scar
like a tattoo
in a brothel
I remember
too many
comrades fallen
guts strewn
I avoid the charge
of your glare
Your words stab
my frog flesh
I am pinned
Wounds smarting
Years of soldiering
kick in
So I am left
screaming
in a
vacuum jar
SILENCE
By
A single tear
white and crystalline
clings to the surface
making blue cold
still
a forest of alabaster
stands silent
almost unmoving
as air whispers dance
speaking of tales
of dead adventurers
from distant lands
stuck in time
compass frozen
before scurrying on
who will sing
a song for them now
the great polar spirit
cries alone
before leaping after
its bearded flesh
Dare Devil - so delicate and dainty - and then ouch. My favorite part of the other one, "Her suitcase stuffed with whys Anyone became Someone who left." Both lovely pieces.
Oh thank you so very very much Linda - just found these comments and what a delightful surprise. I am deeply appreciative and delighted that you enjoyed :)
Dare Devil is excellent.
Thank you so very very much for stopping and for commenting. I'm delighted that you enjoyed Dare Devil - i so enjoyed writing her.
Pearl, I adore both of your pieces. "high above layers of simple air" breathes beautifully in the first, and your nod to E.E. Cummings in the second is literally breathtaking. Gorgeous.
Aw De - high praise indeed!!! Thank you so very much - for reading, for commenting so grandly - happy that you enjoyed and took the time to let me know.
Sorry all but my website for poetry is now http://darkercircle.wordpress.com/ . Had to move it as I also write for children. Apologise for any problems this causes.