Fine Flu Journal Fine Flu Journal- june 2014 | Page 5

EMENIANO SOMOZA
Like A Chair Waiting

Worst case scenario – sudden like rain
in the afternoon at the park

of bones, stuttering after-thoughts
of gouty winters up spiral staircases

while at foyer counters bouquets of joy
and tapping their heels on parquet floor old dogs

preen coyly to visions, sillage of summer
stopping before mirror panes

then peeping to smile the smile
of new rennaissance coquetry…

Anyhow, in the long tedious mutterings
of all these half-dead dreams

at some point this then tongue of innocence
as riverbed of sweet will just go dry, or split

and this serpent tongue
will be flicking for better

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