Schöne Name (Nice Name)
Easter Sunday in Karlovy Vary waiting for the bus to Prague. It arrives with a resurrected sky, blue skin scarred with white trails. Bus driver, bald buttery head surprised at my family name, laughs affectionately, amazed. Schöne Name! I agree, grateful for gentle humour, not playground mockery that still punishes, every consonant a stigmata. He spots my wife’s Polish origins, no laughter, onboard, away. The Music Played Under the arches of the portico, pressed against the back wall, so that her body becomes stone, she watches the three-piece band, a much taller crowd gathering in front, blocking her view but not looking down at her, at a cruel discord in her DNA that jangled her fates, played havoc with cell division leaving her stunted, her face mud-slipped on one side, her limbs twisted like a wind- bent tree. These guilty words have no right to express her peace and beauty as the music played, her bobbing head, her enjoyment despite the Life dished out from scraps. July 2017, The Brasilia Review.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
March 2024
|