drinking wine in the park
the dog dancing as I look
over the paper
I ready myself for
a ride in rough conditions
with a chest of glass,
my hand leased
from a pretty lady
and a paper head so full of sin
I begin to see God.
all the morning to herself
and a gown for me—
the paper
Where will I go
when we call one another mad,
pulling off bride’s and bridegroom’s ribbons,
fooling like mad five o’clock scissors
with my papers?
My love sends instant
messages while she works:
“I hope the reader
might surface from
a sea of paper.
I lost the cable too, but it
has just emerged—
along with a packet of tissues,
a lip salve & a hair comb—
from beneath an
ancient layer on
my desk.”
Five minutes later:
“No reader yet, but
two keys, three
xd memory cards,
How did they do it, those long-
distance lovers of old, waiting
months for a letter to make
its way by sea?
And when it did, oh the slow
parsing of its every word!
Onion-skin paper
like a bed of salt.
Cursive writing
like Jonah’s gourd vine,
the work of a single night.
paper torn by those
who don't like the story
written on their body
skin
In between the sporadic bursts
Between the heckling customers
The intimidating bosses
The gossiping colleagues
In between the drudgery and monotony
I doodle faces on bits of paper.
Faces of men and women
Full face and left profile –
I have grown up with these people
Though they remained the same -
Adults passing through youth.
From behind notebooks, inside novels
Corners of text books and on pages left blank -
From every possible piece of paper
These Picasso profiles stare up at my face.
Most of my women are beautiful;
Feeling are like
Black paper
No one knows what to
do with it
And want to do something
that's complicated
Then let it stay
Black
That seems more
Fresh
Than the the written paper
Because written papers are
expectations
And expectations are not feeling
So, it's better to be
Blank paper
i folded him into so many different shapes
a tiger, a pig, a heart, a swan
his broken bones turned paper thin with no time to recover
a star, a frog, a cow, a sword
until one day the creases became too worn to go back over
and i ripped him apart in random, mindless chaos
trash
There she sits
Late at night
The paper her canvas
The words her colour
She's good with words
Written not spoken
But not today
Today she lacks the words
The feelings too overwhelming
She realizes she might start falling
Falling for him
Is it worth it
Fear
Hurting
Waiting
Feeling
The scrach of pens on paper
The russle of a turning page
When will it be over
over
over
Keep your head down
What is the answer to this question
When will it be over
over
over
Rembering long lost
People, things, lives
When will it be over
over
over
"Pens down"