Poetry Magazine

Miss Jean Brodie

Brodie was a trip.

However I don't think

Smith deserved an Oscar.

Only rage, denunciations,

Triumph.

Mary died

And Brodie could not rise again -

Maggie did not show the changing tide -

From hubris into absolute defeat.

Maggie Smith – Alive, completely human.

5-20-14

Charming Lines

Jerry half and the flatness myself.

I love him very well.

I am going down.

My single sorry issue.

“He'll be very welcome.”

“Sorry” said unmoving.

Sorry is unmoving.

And has no chains on me.

Probably he'll strata

Into the first I offered.

Perhaps the heart is blind

When it accepts a present,

Even from a president.

He shall be quiet one.

If you risk your love,

You'll lose it. Shoot him dead.

Barbie and diminutive.

All Barbie's. They'll love all.

Barbie told the grudge.

Barbie and the ogre.

Playfulness and love.

Now he'll be refused.

He needs a tank of gas.

I love him very much,

Not his progenitors.

5-21-53

 

Eyes On All-Enclosing

I believed the preachers

Til I was 17,

Then I stopped believing

In anything all.

The seraphim are hovering

In the smoke above Manhattan.

Now I'm writing poems

Like modern poets do -

Some like Gertrude Stein,

Others paint like Dali –

The soul of art is gone.

Both fled long before.

The soul could be the painter,

And you left with the stone -

7-22-14