Tag: taxes
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Noises Like Shadows
Adjustments in posture retain conversation, Abbreviations assemble among pouting lips. Cardboard expressions set an ocular presentation. Afternoon breaks and the painter motions bristles to color quips. In the sawdust. In the sawdust sculptors presume form. An empty hallway stages the door swing, forehead forward marks wrinkles; While laugh-lines rise like puppet-strings. COMPLIMENTS! Mouse holes for […]
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Ode to City Parks as Metaphor for the Tax-Gap
City Park’s Grass Acclimates to foot-traffic, Folds Like two parallels, never to meet. Trophy fabric Succumbs to the wind And smacks its clamp Against the metal flag-pole. Clouds become Objects Familiar to imperial culture. “I see a bear!” “I see a bull!” Inside a shadow. Is it human? Light pollution Mired in smoke plumes Curls […]