Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Sharp Distance

Through cables of light
your word reaches me
with a point to make

to challenge the distance,
question intention
and inquire sharply

I awake and think
about whether I've made
a real mistake

a genuine fake
would not lie awake
to think of sharp distance

5 comments:

floots said...

love that sharp distance
we must be thinking of similar things - distance is the title of my next pic
(apologies but it was done before i read your piece - promise) :)

steve said...

floots - thanks for the note and it's funny that we both landed on distance - 'sharp distance' is heavily borrowed from Heart of the Sunrise on the old Fragile album by Yes and re-purposed here. For me, their lyrics were an early taste of poetic imagery.

Anonymous said...

i loved 'genuine fake' loved it SO much!

Anonymous said...

cape - I think I understand what you mean - sorry - or maybe I don't, in which case still sorry. But I think I do.

aurora - I'm enjoying the Magnapoets site a lot. Please let me know if anything I post there doesn't fit somehow. And thank you for the comment here.

Anonymous said...

aurora - thanks