Showing posts with label Abstraction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abstraction. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2014

freebase

Chair with the Wings of a Vulture, 1960, Salvador Dali

from broken life
to broken life
the deadlight
arises
vulturous

lit candles warming
the addicts’ spoons,
lift plumes
like blackbirds’ wings,
ominous,

cancerous
moments that free them
to carrion,
eyes nightblind
to hope threaded
in a spindle spoke sky



© 2014 Jennifer Wagner


The Sunday Whirl, Wordle 159

Monday, February 24, 2014

Dreams and Poems and Relativity

Poet's Sleep, 1989, by Chang Houg Ahn, image via The Mag 208


Asleep
in time’s elbow,
drifting toward
Escher’s labyrinth

the joint bends
toward
the dark,
toward
the light,

I follow
hoping
neither burn me,
knowing
they already have.



© 2014 Jennifer Wagner




Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The Judging Game



watching them with her orange eyes
looking through their glass house
she opens the window
for fresh air          

her clipped wings
grow with the lilting song
“Don’t listen,” they say,
“…the luring…”  with that head-shake and tsk-tsk
of controlling, condescending tone

but she is sick with love
from their poisoned, pressure well
too eager to drink
when she’d been wilting

holding the beat of
their ridiculous freudisms
in her head on bloodied neck
she whispers “jung may have more substance for me
anyway,” so—

from the place where stained glass
is beautiful again
she waves goodbye
with tar-dipped feathers in her teeth  


Copyright 2012 Jennifer Wagner