Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Maya
Where did the light in Arkansas begin?Where it could burn: spirit-flame, or beSnuffed out in an exclusive smothering.If her strength lies in the dirt..
© Lamont Palmer
Florida Colors
You have no right to be here,You loud enemies borne of allThat we fear, strident offspringsOf Emmett Till,Looking at usWith evil in your brutal..
© Lamont Palmer
The Arrangement
Perhaps my emptiness is greater than your own.To test these levels is a testy thing;Bruises from tawdry love scraped againstMy aching face, and yes..
© Lamont Palmer
Motel Clerk: Dusk
So much, so little underthe barometer of lonely light;waves have hit a silence,before the morning grasping, and justafter the sun gets up(reminding..
© Lamont Palmer
An Artist Paints A Bowl Of Fruit
1.Muted color translates into quiet sound,or the roundness of planets and moonsthat dwell here, around us, in obvious places.The room is demure, the..
© Lamont Palmer
For Gordon Lightfoot
Out there in the dire hinterlands,a vastness ebvelopes tropes of yesterday,that will never be held again.This wildness is not derivative; its..
© Lamont Palmer
Intangible Meetings.
He woke up in a sweat, not quite cold, but not typically warm, only half remembering the strange dream that filled his head before his eyes opened...
© Lamont Palmer
Garden Variety
At the florist, a ladysmelled heavenly;I grew nearlyintoxicated; swooningfrom the airin her hurried presence;air subverting agrarianism.Against my..
© Lamont Palmer
Departures
For Lori Wagner and Ian Wagner1.From the sea, the sun ascended like angels,its heat sweeping up in bursts of movement,its tense corona: hot matters..
© Lamont Palmer
The Very Long Life
(For Doshia Watkins,1909-2011)There was more in you than in me. There wasthe outer core and the inner storm, the stagedwhispers and curtain calls..
© Lamont Palmer
Variations In Yearning
'Dreams are necessary to life.' - Anais Nin1.Am I merely another hopeless David,sending Bathsheba's husband into the thickof swords? Like the issue..
© Lamont Palmer
St. Michaels Jetty
Lately I have felt the wind, in all its pleasant coldness,Reminding me of walking, how to take stormy strides,Even if it is not truly me taking..
© Lamont Palmer
Three Days Of Rain
Drenched assumptions were all we had.It was alright, she said,for umbrellas to be panaceas,where tears reverberatedvociferously: a dark eveningnever..
© Lamont Palmer
A Vase In The Corner
Lilies opened into the outer room.They almost overshadowed the entire place.It was there in bright recesses the talkBegan, the colors, the aromas..
© Lamont Palmer
Amish Girls
Where is the religious eye? Morning is dark.In Pennsylvania, a tear has leftyoungish ducts, and blood has replaced it.A schoolhouse was cold. In the..
© Lamont Palmer
Message Not In A Bottle
Just when I put my mortality behind meSomebody I know dies; the scourge of daylightDrops its existential contents and mental bricksOnto your lap, the..
© Lamont Palmer
Rain, Isolation, Self-Analysis
'The world is myself; life is myself'. - Wallace Stevens1.The gray has delivered a calm emptiness,over subdued thinkers and lonely movers,who look..
© Lamont Palmer
Gazing At You, Winona Palmer, My Mother
Shrunken face: brown, refined and small.Who reduced you to this diminutive size?When did you become fragility's core?You scare me. My days tremble..
© Lamont Palmer
City Of Coldness
Snow claims walkways: restless crystals,like they are at its mercy, but who really is,which is the test of wind, or the speed of air.Intimately..
© Lamont Palmer
Knoll
I was a year and a half old whenTwo, loud cracks punctured western confidenceThrough air; my future head snapped back in grief.There is no darkness..
© Lamont Palmer
A Future If We Dare
'All that we are not stares back at what we are.' - W. H. AudenA birthplace came back: the homeland image.I'd left, but escapism is fiction,when the..
© Lamont Palmer
Pictures Of Two Brothers
1Photos on a table: nearly shiny gods of reflection,made us bow down before the small, instant altarsspread out like a sea of happy snapshots.Can the..
© Lamont Palmer
April Of 68: Martin Luther King Is Dead
1.News preempted news, upstaging clean air,forced and stained against each open doorway,while our faces were awash in speeches that cured.Then the..
© Lamont Palmer
Sunday: Rt 40
Not kept by the mountain,but owning it -its shape, now destinedfor invisible change,its muteness, now tobecome a hardenedfate,allowing coniferssimple..
© Lamont Palmer
Suicide In An Old House
Death surrounds us with blatant arms.A sanitation worker dies and no onecares, but banshee phones striking at midnight,summoning the equally unknown..
© Lamont Palmer