poetryrepairs #198 v14.03:027
JOHN GREY : Hawk Devouring a Pigeon CRAIG KIRCHNER : Voyeur CHRISTOPHER BARNES : Buster Keaton |
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JOHN GREY Hawk Devouring a PigeonHigh atop a telephone pole, a hawk devours a pigeon. Can't identify with that fat flouncing rock dove, that feral mooching sky rat. But nor can I sympathize with feasting raptor as it rips into the guts of the unwanted, even if there's hungry chicks high in the cliff beyond. The haughty hawk has the death of song and soaring on its talons. And the act itself does nothing to ingratiate though I'm well schooled in nature's cruel necessities Screams are screams, blood is blood, whether in forest heart, city park, or tenement alley. Banquet over, a solitary feather flutters down, lands at my feet. Wind blows it away. I feel for the feather but I side with the wind. poetryrepairs #198 v14.03:027 |
All the fine arts are species of poetry--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry repairs your heart even as it splits it open. VIRGINIA WOOLF The Art of Reading Our Dancing Poet Logo! http://www.zazzle.com/poetryrepairshop JOHN GREY, an Australian born poet, works as a financial systems analyst. Recently published in Bryant Poetry Review, Tribeca Poetry Review and the horror anthology, "What Fears Become" . |
CHRISTOPHER BARNES Buster Keaton"Sympathy For The Devil" resuscitates our adrenalin strongbox. The trailer park's strip lights twink as we fish up the lift-thumbing Beat by the painted milepost at The Far Side Of Reality. And snatchin' at the blinker-signal dodge-dust up Thunder Road onto the cloverleaf freeway interchange and open the throttle for a chuckle at the drive-in movies. poetryrepairs #198 v14.03:027 |
Poetry endangers the established order of the soul - Plato REPAIR: resort, frequent or habitual going; concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; making one's way; to go, betake oneself, to arrive; return to a place; to dwell; to recover, heal, or cure; to renew; to fix to original condition. -- Oxford English Dictionary TOP |
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