Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks December 2014: Winter | Page 5

Viewing
RG Allen
December 1998. Limerick, O’Connell Street.
The sun, like a moon through the fog,
A flash of post-apocalyptic vistas.
Smoke rising from behind a solitary stone angel.
The seams of a suburban city
Fade, through the fog, to industrial Russian sprawls.
Hammers and sickles, cut and beat
The cold into a shining, stinging, sharpness.
A snow globe of cigarette smoke and tears,
Shook about and viewed through the glass,
Not a part, just apart;
Standing there, in a snow globe,
Viewing a snow globe,
While being viewed.

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