Carole Towers’ most recent poem to appear here was “At the Super Market” (January 2018).
At the Center of the Radiance of a Star
By Carole Towers
It is very cold in space
Only the clear cruel ah-lay-loo –ee-a of angels
Ladies on sofas
with brooches on bosoms
have no opinions
silver hairpins in their hair.
The lung exhales and the lung inhales
and they say the heart
was doused with gas.
God
he can not be
far from here.
A shudder of wings,
even the angels depart.
Very cool poem. Love the narrative/attitude shifts. The off-balance quality of it strikes very true.