Thursday, April 6, 2017

Kerri Shying R - # 210 at the checkout with my ebook


at the checkout with my ebook

there were thirty five thousand photos
I had posted on facebook             in five years
so when you saw them all in the one place
as a book             it had this effect of restating where
my gaze went            each day as the world turned
 it was the garden           until the sky bore down          into the bones             

my B cells  bombarded with a bitter poison             slowed
that  wrong thinking outpour of antibodies            so  came a slew of selfies
the uncertain face of one given to a steroid habit
of ballooning            facing off the moon for roundness

I am looking        narrating
what cannot be estimated

it is the dog years next
 above the mandarin tree the moon hangs       less a slice

4 comments:

  1. Kerri - this is fabulous! Love it - full of wonderful stanzas - love the one "I am looking narrating, what cannot be estimated" ... Really love this piece.

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  2. Oh thank you Kristen, you are catching me beguiled with your own work at the moment I have to say, so I am delighted that you like it. I have gotten my writing room back and it is really making work so much more enjoyable!

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  3. less a slice
    less a mime
    at the checkout
    with my chook
    the cashier
    cannot figure
    the change

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