Stamp the fridge Shamelessly With colours brash enough To appease The imagination And boards of tourism
Having a Here Wish you were Weather Thinking of Great time
The pen clicks shut Gritty with sand Cocktail umbrellas swabbing Maraschino dye Like a stab wound Please Can we just A palm flashed like a badge Holiday police Detaining old arguments Into the corners Of new suitcases
But how they dangle now Against the white lacquer Magnet pinned Something to push our faces against In ungainly silences Golf-greened ruins Aborigines sat in studios Landmarks you could Shake a snowstorm in
And they stare back at us Accusingly Orthogonal eyes beaming Clumped in clusters Of either too few Or too many
Mark Lavorato is a poet and writer from Canada. His
first novel, Veracity, won second place in Ore Mountain Publishing Houses
First Annual Novel Contest, while his short fiction has been published
in Stranger Box and Miss Saphira's. His poetry has also been chosen
for publication by Leaf Press, The BluePrintReview, Poetry Canada Magazine,
Miss Saphira's, and Ascent Magazine, where he has won First Place in
their Premier Print Edition Contest. He is currently working on his
second novel.
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