The Coming of the Toads

A Notebook – Since 2007

Tag: chairs

  • Deep-seated

     

    near the chair
    wear and tear
    consonant care    		 Drill root canal
    fill with sap    		 Pull with hand held pliers
    Palaver with prayer    		 white bib
    with metal
    dental clips
    Augh!  Augh!  Haircut
    at the barber’s
    another chair
    alt form    		 of chair palaver
    and prayer    		 white apron
    neck to knees    		 stare ahead
    an acolyte
    moving
    chair to chair    		 mold to mold
    meal to meal    		 measure
    for measure    		 stool to stool.
    At the beach
    chairs open
    to the water    		 umbrellas fill the air
    the wind offshore beach chairs deep-seated in warm sand.
    At the dark food carts the loos busy
    a line of heirs await thrones at the top of each loo
    a lantern flares.  Sit still.