Tag: reflection

• April 7, 2022

  reflections before me

  (ordinary) My Reflection strains against the television’s darkness. Unfocused vision formulates flecks of light, jittering beside the right corner and in the center I appear. Polka dots distinguish themselves as eye-sockets, flesh tones arrange dollops of cream cheeks to break the quasi shadows, visible on screen and nowhere else. In the background another face appears.…
• April 21, 2021

  Edges for Disco Dancing

  I found a mirror, proceeded to hold it like a plot device  And marched the hallway to reflect characters.   The innocent acknowledged their bodies   With glances they placed on teachers too.  A charlatan crossed their presence  Beyond the mirror’s glass, By pausing below the light shade Dirty with dead insects and dust, Casting their shadow …
• November 6, 2020

  Naming Shadow Puppets

  Font articulates the context of words through style, but at what point in the history of typeface did letters penned in bigger girth signify their importance above others? That is, if importance is related to focus, which it often is…depicting boldface script as the Class Clown turning a substitute’s faux pas into a punchline, instilling…
• October 12, 2020

  aver(sion)age

  Biological ramparts furnished a maze with trick mirrors, archetypes formatted to skin sacks stiffened their long faces  And leveraged lips quivering, But a boy brought his stuffed rabbit along, down the hallway, including Tall glass, he dragged his bunny by the ears and mopped the floors clean of dust.  Average, begins the dust bunny tomb.…
• August 18, 2020

  4flectionz

  Talking into nothingness, deciphering an echo’s body language. Reflections in tandem to various facial contortions, recognized in repetition, forgotten if otherwise. Imprints of rolling eyes replay the snarky dialogue which took place to a self imprisoned as myself. Sprayed Windex outside a glass eye, saw improvements in the pupil forever contrasting to include special fractals,…