Saturday, May 1, 2010

What Flavor Is the Past?


What flavor is the past?
What scent is the unknown?
What color is humanity?
What size is emptiness?
What texture is this moment?
What noise is divine?

1 comment:

Dr. Mike said...

WHAT’S PAST

Differs according to taste.
Rot infects antique furniture

Diced and glazed, without roots,
Abandoned in the junkyard of collectables.

A past participle of dysfunctional memory,
Lacunae from too much brutality,

Grammatically unskilled labor
In the construction of a sentence

Of life without parole,
What’s past is best forgotten,

Except when sleep awakens a return
Of beatings, intimidation, and cruelty.

[Disposable Poem