encrusted words

Tag: poem

  • Anxiety (a new poem)

    Anxiety An old acquaintance appears with- out invitation, under the radar, fastening invisible hands on heart and throat – salvo in ongoing war. Disorienting deja-vu says I’ve been here before, but “here” is lost and adrift; familiar faces somehow out of reach, with utter otherness imbued. Greet this friend, enemy – refuse to fight in…

  • Monday Sabbath (a new poem)

    Monday Sabbath The preacher lives a Monday Sabbath as the world rushes to the quotidian; the city-bus groan, office politics, classroom chaos, breakfast to go. Resist the voice that insists on Productivity! Usefulness! Preparedness! Refuse the myth of indispensability, lie that dies slowly, deserving a quick burial, oblivion. Roll from bed into a day rife…

  • A new poem – Blossoms

    Blossoms Short-lived on stem and branch, like honey on the tongue or lover’s hand on neck and cheek – almost absent in presence, longing even in the holding. So soon scattered to the floor, a May snow-shower of perfumed petals – wasteful abandon of white and pink, the world taking even as it gives, giving…