Short Display Case Poems

Recalled scenes, like diamonds gleam 
Scattered on velvet black 
Cloth of midnight shadows 
All laid out displayed in showcase 
Lining the dark chambers 
In this graying head, where 
the lamplight of recall is hung 
Illuminating a frontier 
where I stay always young....

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They tease me, 
Vying for my attention
Behind the bakery display case. 

Voluptuous, some bursting with fruit, 
The brazen, the coquettish, 
They tease me.

Which to pick?
The Austrian strudel or Danish
Vying for my attention?

Impetuously taking her
In my car, from 
Behind the bakery display case....

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It s hard being the center of attention for so many greedy eyes, when you only want one pair locked on you. Or when you want none. But if you put yourself in a box, it locks you away from the world, cuts off your oxygen and slowly suffocates you in utter darkness. A glass case is no better, for the eyes hungrily grab whatever they can find....

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I stare at myself through a display case,
Defaming the shape and molds that I hold.

Capture my face through a lens,
Posting yet another layer that I’ll have to tear. 

Scripting these dreams so they’re easy to speak, sequenced in panels for the risk of retreat.

I document my worth on compliancy, 
So tell me, please?! What’s my score for the week?

I catalog life on things that don’t matter. Lying beneath the veneer of glassy chatter where my forgotten intentions lay splattered....

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