February 2012
1 post
POETS IN PUBLIC
open hearts
surging.
an open heart with valves l u n g i n g
out of an old man reciting poetry
on Pike St.
to no one in particular
his face has been mangled
by too much definition;
surgically cut and tapered
by every expression he has
ever made.
he is a gallery of unfinished
effigies
of tire-irons welded together
dusting and rusting over
serving no purpose yet
much too massive to...