Poem Preview

Exciting times as Michelle PG Richardson begins to feed me the poems she has created and continues to create for our book collaboration on the Book Passages images. Here is a sneak peek. If you haven't already, please visit her on-line magazine "Eye on Life". It has such a diverse amount of quality content that you should find something that will satisfy your literary palette. http://eyeonlife.squarespace.com

Perfection-less by Michelle PG Richardson aka Frieda Babbley

Do you feel as though I have abandoned you?

As if the wind has stopped

blowing, whispering

for you to quietly sneak back

into the cupboard

where you’ve found yourself locked

many a sunny day?

Wisps of hair

found on the floor

where you’ve been

once trampled over

seduced relentlessly

price never affirmed

only hush and calm,

words surrendered

received via post the following day.

Poisonous silence killed you

never saying  no

never walking away

clutter of the day’s thoughts swept

under the floorboards.

Light shown through

the azure skies of blue fear

peace and solace

refined dignity

hoping for the breath

that would bring back life

more insipid than

the taste of belonging.

Porcelain Skin

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Excerpt from Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Toilets in modern water closets rise up from the floor like white water lilies. The architect does all he can to make the body forget how paltry it is, and to make man ignore what happens to his intestinal wastes after the water from the tank flushes them down the drain. Even though the sewer pipelines reach far into our houses with their tentacles, they are carefully hidden from view, and we are happily ignorant of the invisible Venice of shit underlying our bathrooms, bedrooms, dance halls, and parliaments. submitted by Frieda Babbley

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