Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Boy on the Train

Wide eyes fall like
shavings of

star

onto the
lap

connected to the
half-formed

folds

of shoulder

by long
listless

arms.

It is the
benign

bewilderment

in that otherwise
blockish
jockish
face

that is so charming

the embers
of a disarming man

burning.

1 comment:

Thomas the Obscure said...

Mmmm, yes! I thought perhaps this was Kim before actually reading the title. I like the stretching and spacing. Here is one I wrote, which will now be called "Girl on a train"

Just turn around beautiful one
So the sun, though furtive its light may be
On this smogged and cloudy eve,
May bring its infant fingers to your face,
Trace its gentle tumbling
And hold your being, amid all that disappears,
Within a vast empyrean glow…

then let you go.