MAYDAY

A FACT by Laura Carter

Contributed By:

Timely the cyclist—
the motorcyclist—
in pictures
and middle voice—
an empire
of nirvana’s
ideology critique….

*

Sitting in summer by windows
with the fan on,

in the year 2000
brand new perceptions
are a slow gondola—

relatively idle clause,
just on the other side of this here.

*

He throws an onyx,
turns on the TV
and speaks his first few words—
sublime, oxygen, pin-tucked.

On stage a few friends
nurse stuffed animals—motley as ifs.

A happy verse, or
revolving
doors releasing begonias

into dreams,
as the bombshell is blue,
ordinary,
tight-lipped and narrow-eyed. Beauty!
She cuts him down to shag and mows.

*

He throws a white room
into the dark,

and in hushed tones speaks of commodities.
Elapse of grapevine, revealed.

Nirvana’s new
the second time around where
the rude nude
turns on the windmill….

 

Return to table of contents for Issue 4 Summer 2011

Filed Under: Poetry

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