Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Screen Pounds


by Mark Fleury

The screen pounds
Like a heart. The blue dot
In the middle

Is a puddle

Soaking through my shoes
As I try to take flight away

From TV’s charming smile.

It happens. Sky’s clear
And from high up St. Paul
Looks smaller than me.
Now my shoes, once white, are

Blue,

And the city fits on my t-shirt.
My neighborhood is a cloud,
The way sound forms

In a breath,

Accepting, in time, the death
Of all other names and creations. 

____________________


Mark Fleury lives in St. Paul Minnesota. He has recently had poems published in "Counterexample Poetics," "UFO Gigolo," "The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology," "ditch," "The Medulla Review," "Haggard and Halloo," "Transcendent Visions," "The Storyteller," "Ruah," "Ceremony," "Poet's Haven" and "Down In The Dirt." Mark has a chapbook called "Spirit Light Naming Sound," published through Scars Publications and Design in 2009, and three full-length poetry books published through Scars: "In Your Heart, The Apostrophe's Teardrops of God" (2010), "Angel's Syllable Is Good Boss of Devil's Spine" (2011) and "The 4D Window" (2012).

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