Shamrock on the Shorts
...a fairy tale of Camden Town
Clancy’s Gym, the same old sounds
a minute’s rest then two more rounds
I’ll jack this in (like Bobby Prewitt)
but where’s the one who made me do it?
He hasn’t come,...
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Categories:
nureyev, image,
Form: Couplet
Old Twilight
...resting by a garden path, I watched them lean into each other
like sodden loofers in a warm pool
then they rose to walk away and her voluminous dress, (silk)
danced a parachute ballet, caressing...
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Categories:
nureyev, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Might We Ever--
...Might We Ever…
by Odin Roark
Fathom
The depth of agony
A genius creation goes through
The willingness to imagine
Beyond expectant physical endurance
Understand
The amount of p...
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Categories:
nureyev, art, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Pom-Pom Man
...Glimpses I caught between the swishing traffic
on that sidewalk in cold rain and colder wind
and a cast-off Cleveland Browns windbreaker: a man
tottering a mime of an off-center grandfather clock,...
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Categories:
nureyev, imagination, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Monologue