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{ Monthly Archives } September 2009

Terminal

On the plastic falsewood table, The shredded shells from sugar, A flimsy stirring stick to go With flimsy ersatz coffee. A half-scrunched pseudo-snack surrendered in disgust: an acquisition of boredom and not faithful hunger. Above, the sky is filled With big square eyes, multi-pupilled with lines of coloured times and dates and bays to congregate [...]

Softened corners

I. The corners of my life are smoothed By comforts small and plenty, Which let me bump through life unharmed, They serve as ease’s sentries. II. The small white cup, an eggshell, Of piping bitter potion, Which burns my lips and fires my veins And stirs me into motion. III. The enticing softness of vastness [...]