|
|
Landscaping The Future
by Maurice Oliver.
in scene 6 the script calls for
patches of the hellgate world
to suck a gree-swollen hill
of all its exhaust-resistant trees
then surround innocent saplings
in a solid schoolyard circle
piercing every crease and crevice
while the sky turns pure purple
but on the other side of town
it's 1999 in a honey-only club
as a waitress appears on cue
wearing a submachine gun smile
in halo heels hooked on phonics
and stuffed in a skimpy dress
the barely conceals her sung song
with padded hips and goldfish legs
all to no avail as every patron
stares in unison towards center stage
where a lone spotlight illuminates
several feather penstrokes of flesh
in an apricot hue until darkness
pales in between and the dancer pauses
to gain her balance just before stepping
into the mext millenia to cat calls
and wild applause that almost sounds holy.
|
Comments?
talk about the poem
(click here)
Authors bio:
After working as a freelance photographer in Europe for almost
a decade, Maurice Oliver returned to America in 1990 to work for
the Los Angeles Times. Then, in 1995, he made a lifelong dream
reality when he travled for eight months around the world. But
instead of taking pictures, he used the same acute sense of creative
energy to record the experience in a journal,which eventually
became hundreds of poems. And so began his ambition to be a poet.
His poetry has appeared online in ink-mag.com & retortmag.com,
and will appear in One Forty Two Magazine, Holy Ignorance, Eye-Shot,
The Surface, SlowTrains and Tryst3 Journal in Winter 2003-4. He
presently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is a private tutor. |
|
|
Other poems by Maurice Oliver:
Search Books By Maurice Oliver
|
|
