Eileen Prunster

Eileen Prunster Sep 2012

Wood Stacking

Impulses signalling
the state
of bone and muscle
come pulsating
along nerves

Eileen Prunster Sep 2012

Etiquette

Glorious spring
determined to show
she gives not a toss
for calenders
arrives on her own time

Eileen Prunster Sep 2012

Rictus grins

look at them
a cackling flock
nails, painted claws
plucking and clucking over scatter cushions
@ only $5 each
it's a wonder the stuffing doesn't spill

A particularly irritating and mindless series of recent television advertisments for K Mart

Eileen Prunster Sep 2012

Mortal coil

My body
a carcass
to be sloughed off
in death
like a crab
sheds its shell
or a butterfly
it's chrysalis
finally free

Eileen Prunster Sep 2012

Then sunlight surprises through a blue hole

wind screams at me
sky a swirling vortex
of grey on grey
angry sea churns
all lumpy brown waves

walk on a winter beach

Eileen Prunster Sep 2012

Solitary confinment

Every man
keeps prisoner
his own heart
i walk alone

Eileen Prunster Sep 2012

Sand scribed

I wrote your name
one hundred times
in the sand
tide erases
leaving memory
untouched