as the puncher might say, "Wha' abou' i'?" You like?
L
On 02/10/2013, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That frame slippage!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 02 October 2013 07:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: domestics - don't think Ive shown this one before, pardon if I
> have
>
> Punches her in the face, breaking it up,
> the problems of mankind something personal;
> her mouth turns backwards flame-glowing
> to a dislocated grin, a smashed mirror.
>
> I cannot breathe. Liquid evaporating,
> trying to sound casual, stiffening her pain.
> The picture of her sticks at frame slippage,
> straddling two images held apart slightly
>
> audio hissing sound track of a dull morning.
> An observer the observer stays calm
> in stray silence, making that chance a pretence
> of will; pulling away; remaining visible
> in the midst of a deadly room in their mad household
> throughout harmful streets in a clever town.
>
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