Thanks, Doug. And thanks for noticing.
- Jim
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> In terms of playing off the sonnet as convention, I found the first a bit
> more on, there, James. But that's some family complex in the 2nd....
>
> Do we say 'surreal'?
>
> Doug
> On 2011-09-04, at 11:35 AM, James Cervantes wrote:
>
> > *Seasonal*
> >
> >
> >
> > Sweet work in front of a mirror,
> >
> > all the world behind in terror.
> >
> > Neat work in thinnest shadow,
> >
> > fall in the north, spring in the south.
> >
> >
> > Horses and jeeps, mired in snow,
> >
> > balk or stall. Somewhere, a mouth
> >
> > nurses open to create surprise,
> >
> > clock in death a second time, lift
> >
> >
> > an eyelid. Harmless flirting eyes
> >
> > summer in Puerto Rico, then shift.
> >
> > Plan nothing, she thinks. Funereal
> >
> > winter holds, an eye and window
> >
> >
> > frosted over. A blind sky's missile
> >
> > landed here, a new season's show.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Demise *
> >
> >
> > Tricia says, "Come see the absolutely
> >
> > delicious harbinger exiting
> >
> > from my mouth." "It's probably
> >
> > from the pudding," says Mom,
> >
> > "Come do your homework,
> >
> > then you might go to the prom."
> >
> > Daughter starts scribbling,
> >
> > dark scowl across her brow,
> >
> > slaughter in her mind. The bowl,
> >
> > an ark, with a white prow
> >
> > beached at her nostrils. Lost
> >
> > lunch break. What sweet Louis
> >
> > offers, she takes. With luck, that
> >
> > bunch beneath the fire escape!
> >
> >
> > -- Jim
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem
> strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
> inadequacies.
>
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