AS IT APPEARS


 

distant black

                        strings hovering in

                        relief across a

hazy mid-winter

sky. closer

                                                            ribbons shaking

                                    in the breeze. near

                                    birds, each flapping in

formation, reducing

resistance.




© Jim O’Loughlin

 

STRUCTURE


 

First the floor gives

way, the founda

tion disinte

grates, I am

staring down a ten

story hollow cav

ern

etc. 

 

The others are

having tea, and

it seems impolite to men

tion that the fur

niture is sliding

towards the edge of a prec

ipice or that the build

ing next door has

entirely disap

peared..



© Doris Henderson

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Bent Pin Quarterly  Vol. 2 No1

January 2008