"slonimsky" poems
Mostly, it sickens me that
our notes sent back and forth are
measurably more pleasant than conversation
We share in person.
I bet that paper lotus is gone.
Interchanged sentence fragments
both homeopathic and calculated by lamplight.
I bet that bookmark is still in the same place.
Even comparing you to Ivan would be a stretch,
Who are we kidding.
Dmitri.
But that’s still not the name I call you ante meridiem.
I bet Freud was right, but I never called myself a boy.
A . Eb. Six steps.
Slonimsky dedicated so many pages to you.
I guess I will distill the Ocean
for salt.
I can’t say any of this to you,
the most honest I’ll ever be
is in a poem I hope you’ll never read.
Nov 29, 2013
Nov 29, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC