Notes About The Poem
Craig Cornish's Contest : The Picture On
The Parlor Wall
30 Sept 24
Underground Grafitti
Numb…jammed like rows of canned sardines,
bodies avoiding faces labeled as print,
ticket stubs, and coats on a 7 pm bullet train
bound for home along dim lights on railways :
shadows gaze blankly from tight decks
cold frozen as still life masking their alienation
through buried heaves under woolen scarves…
And how passengers’ skin touching
each other’s loneliness cringe
in the tram ...their expressions hollering loud
through silent wails ,
words hammered like scribbles
from neon paint on cans,
abstract forms zigzaging
on broken halls...
graffiti and urban doodles
imitate this isolation more
black than white ... surreal
imprints speaking
of holy and irreverent whims..
untold.
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