147th Weekly Poetry Contest honorable mention: The apple cart
147th Weekly Poetry Contest honorable mention: The apple cart
by mikemc
He turns his gaze on meby cartervance
We met in ward light,
hands bandaged from climbing cuts,
scaling places we couldn’t control,
with paper and pens and violin trills:
world seemed so sharp, without graces.
But we spoke like prisoners, batting away
winking sunshine, locked in jabbing
rhythm to see which gave first:
my flat regionalisms, your wordly
cross-splendour.