Cezanne's Carrot Literary Journal - Winter Solstice 2005

POETRY

(click on a title to read any of the poems listed below)

"The woman shivered
convinced she would drown
in the thin light of early spring"

"Nothing doesn't shimmer
as the Sunset Limited
blows thru"

"Green wind, green
petals, green all light
grows greener in"

"When I wake up I smell
ginger in the wind"

"What I didn't have
blinded me so I hardly saw
the small birds, blue,
pulling out of moss"

"Then you see the ring,
Clara, etched on the 18 k gold"

"She placed her hand on my heart, between
my breasts and said, 'There is a sad eye here'"

"A woman from my hometown puts me at ease.
Were the people simpler there?"

"And drama, which writes in lipstick on the mirror
And since time passes but pain doesn't, edits
That lipstick smear"

"Here and there in the stagnant
shallows a glowing weed veers"

"We turn out the room lights and watch the dazzle buffeting the night screen, the drama of the wind over newly planted cornfields"

"A trick of the eye, pure nervous response--
loud as a rifle-crack at close range"

"When the world disappoints, I still
do what I've always done--look inward to
the secret source"

"she dreams of someone
stroking her hair
and awakes with a start"

"A crimson cardinal zooms past at eye level
chased by a devilish blue jay"

"my brother fell, ripping
a calf muscle, he barely winced
he's a disciplined man"

"A wrong turn carries me far from the trailhead"

"you knew the calligraphy of a coastal morning"

"altar boys swing incense holders
over the congregation
like bee smokers"