And the snow has made quite
a scene. Every rubber-coated
keg -top is a face, or
a painting:::
moon mouths
or plastic cup print
a bird feet made
mustache
drawn out under
barlight, and the smoking's
good/every square foot
a perfectly painted someplace
i stand
in what burying degrees
we gots
outside the Spider
cold Cleve. and a smoke no
conversation. noone taking me
into their traffic.no traffic anyhow,
the sirens are
at rest and there is no movement.
no camera. nothing
to snap, wakening.
no A.M. or P.M.
P.M. or FM
EPHEMERAL
AFFIRMATIVE
aural imperatives
missing from the scene.
(no alarm clock baby).

Bree is a poet, artist and publisher
of Green Panda Press, which produces chapbooks and
anthologies of poetry and art by the likes of Tom
Kryss, John Bennett & George Wallace. Recently
she returned to the kitchen where she hefts lexons
of steaming brocollini, and the like, for a 401K.
(A side effect of turning thirty). She lives in Cleve.,
OH. |