Showing posts with label Breaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breaking. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2013

52.5 Seconds Ago


Extra, Extra, read all about it…
     … And the…. exclusively….
Extra, Extra, read all about it…

: that’s so this morning,
downloaded the full scoop after
my first cup of joe, just before the
spoon sunk the last of the cheerios swimming
in the bowl

Fire: Electricity
Fan blades: Freon
Like: Love
Communication: Status Update
Words: Emoticons and Textspeak

Husbands tweeting wives two rooms away
to tell them they love them

Brother texting sister to turn the volume down on that game of angry birds, never looking over, never prying neck from it's downward angularity…despite being an arm's span apart

Nodding to the tunes you just prepared
Setting playlist for the afternoon commute
A sound interrupts, indicating something has just broken
Only to find it’s some coupon, for some place you never knew existed, despite being down the road for the past six months

Extra, Extra, read all about it
…breaking news…hot off the presses…
Read it first…exclusively…
Extra, Extra, read all about it

:(Shaking head in apathetic disgust)
That’s so fifty-two.five seconds ago…

For Brian Miller's Media discussion for this week's Poetics over at D'Verse.  Check out his excellent article and then tune in to all the amazing responses linked up to the best community of poets around.  

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Chapstick


Cracked lips
Ridged sore
Broken
By the drying air

A minor bit of bloodshed
Tiniest amount
Escapes the valleys formed
Along this ravaged route

A Bridge, chipped and frail
Connecting voice
To the driest drift of air

A tender application
Smooth daubs of Vaseline
Form an even spread
From left to right,
Smothering

         Glistened in freshest glimmer
         Lips smacking together
         Pucker-kiss-stare
 In the mirror
         As if upon the stage

Angles
Angles
Everywhere
  

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Humidity Reconfigured


The stench consumed the oxygen
Deprived—stagnating frigid scent

The itch declared aversions to,
Demography and science-laden
Veins of change/chance

Hovering
In hovels high
Above domiciliary
And streetcars henchmen
Screeching foul free

Positioning
Strongholds of air decayed
Frantic, frenetic, caustic solutions to,
Boundaries broken, yet reenlisting
All the angry arches, all the fractured bridges
Broken in humid reconfiguration.