S. K. Kelen Light Poems

• 1. Fission
  White glow melts life
  freezes shadow, twisted bottle
  the birth of the transistor
  and then.
  ...
• 2. Understand
  wild animals become divinely rare
  their habitats wild homes are soft earth & tree
  cannot flee before the bulldozer concrete
  flame and smoke desert where only wheat
  ...
• 3. The House Spider
  The spider was there when we moved in
  basking on a sunlit bit of wall
  waving its front legs in greeting.
  Dad said it was “a cheeky bastard”
  ...
• 4. The Burger King
  Dine at diners, eat at eats -chicken,
  ribs and fries melt deep the psyche.
  
  
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• 5. Extreme Orient
  A barge adrift the Perfumed River-
  reclining beneath a parasol
  is the courtesan Tigress waving her fan
  -barge floats past village and pagoda,
  ...
• 6. Empery
  I am shut out of mine own heart
  because my love is far from me,
  nor in the wonders have I part
  that fill its hidden empery ~ Christopher Brennan
  ...
• 7. Ba Vi
  The clouds are always there
  ringing three peaks
  busy with lightning &
  thunder grumbling-
  ...

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