Monday, February 4, 2013

Some poems

.... in response to some of Jennifer K. Dick's poems


THREE

Can you hold me?

No

Because I am only color; blues and yellows

Verdigris on my tongue

Soft yellow light

I see you and wonder how you can be so solid

How you can give form to the color

How you can be solid and here and not disappearing, like I am

(I have already disappeared)

You are visible and you are here

Am I here?


FOUR

His voice: “What is”

The air gone out of the train so that, like fish, our mouths open-shut
in a spasmodic desire to
speak

Tell you what it is

            The train
is on fire

with feeling

with fear

Wild-eyed on every side

A wing-flutter snapshot
                                                sinks
                                                            to meet
the ground.

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