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Table For One
I’m seated and curiously observing:
The girl in pink wants another balloon.
Her mother cannot find her downcast eyes, lost beneath her food
The couple's stale conversation of defeat floats out of the window like charred paper.
She sighs: “There is nothing left to save.”
He gathers himself to return her sigh.
With a head full of spare parts, he spears his heart with his fork – but it only drops again.
I think the effortless wind through the goldish afternoon has stolen them like a Griffin.
Just dropped them on two distant tors; they have balled up like armadillos.
I draw deeply on the remaining half-inch of my cigarette and kill it like the rest.
I wonder the same yellowed thought: Is a single tendril of smoke ultimately less pained?
A beer arrives. I thank the waitress in a voice carved out by distant glaciers.
Loved the very last line best!
Nick,
You will have to tell me sometime or write a poem how you came to be a poet of this calibre and how you write in this very original way. That is what I love best about your poems is how original you write. Its like a new fresh way to say some old thing. Is like a smorgasboard of words, word construction and 'out there' ways of writing ideas. Very nice indeed. Oh, and I did save your blog URL in my book marks. Thanks, that pic of the tree your sister took is lovely. It reminded me of one I took in a zooilogical park years ago when on vacation in India with the sun behind a stark tree on a dark praire like area was very pretty. I may blow that up one day and frame it and hang it somewhere in my house. Do keep sharing all your poetry. All of mine are on here. Is a great venue and the people over all are so nice. Sincerely, Melissa Lundeen.
P.S. Check out my latest poem 'Younger Men' inspired by reading your latest poem, 'Loving An Older Woman' I really enjoyed that and the older woman in me had to reply back lol. I'm pretty pleased with the out come feel free to read it. Happy writing...............ML.
about my pic!
I look younger cause in that picture I am. It is the only studio head shot that I own that looked professional.