Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words
lights like fencers heads
By Mark William Jackson
outside a train station fixed to a wall
there are lights like heads of fencers,
masked and slightly bowed.
I saw this as an interesting observation,
but you really have to see them
for yourself.
as I looked at them
I struggled to describe
them in mental construction.
then thought of the pleasure
and relief when you hit
the right word and
like silver halide salts exposed
the image is captured.
this is not a poem about
lights like fencers heads
this is the Love.
this is the Sanity.
this is the Healing.
this is the Power.
this is the Word.
Mark William Jackson’s most recent poem to appear at vox poetica was The Old Man on the Bus (April 2010).
Yes, the power of words.
this is not a poem about
lights like fencers heads
wonderful mark..