27 Feb Zen Shwery
SWEET REUNION
In the sun it floats
Doodling on the museum ticket
A hot cocoa & a medium cappuccino
Hooked on a feeling
Cold dry patches of grassy earth
OOGA-CHAGA Sami departs tonight
Heat in autumn is a blessing
Single drifting is not like couple’s drifting
Urban pace is slower in the park
Shades cover shy eyes
The bare tree stands proud (on paper as is out there yonder)
We ponder
A white line divides sky
One portion blue the other lighter
The rolling paper burns
A harmony of fume and sun splendid
Hands get busy with ink & lead
As if to no surprise they spread
Images ephemeral waning rhizomes
A black dog a cyclist a baby in a carriage a veiled mother
The hill breathes like us
Yellow is only temporary
Free air for everyone
A street lamp a skinny tree an odd face a crystal contraption
Tattoos with words jumble
Between the blades of pages
& the friendly silence
BREAK THE STRIDE
Conversation essential contact
A game to play without competition
An energy shared lacking facebooking & instagramming
A breath of fresh air outside image:
Illusion a control to empty inside
Light in your mind heavy on your feet
Unlearning is intensely challenging
A past questioned a present uncertain
Labor for change hope for the best
Clichés that might just work the outcome awaits
A couple’s peripatetic meandering
Crosses the boundaries of misconception
Through passing vehement shadows crashing
Like tropical waves in an ocean of useless
EXCESS
We try to make sense out of the no pretense
While splashing out the slush of life
Into the streets of choices and chance
Uncomfortable enough to recharge
The heavy mind with light feet
Zen Shwery is a PhD candidate in English Studies.
He is a part time instructor at UdeM who gives lectures in 20th century Literature and Poetry Theory.
His living muses are the city, the sea, and the void.