PMPope’s most recent poem to appear here was how to find the calendar made for the muse (January 2012). His poetry collection, Written All Over Your Face{book} is now available and you can listen to him read from it and talk about it in his recent interview at vox poetica’s 15 Minutes of Poetry.
Morning Glory
Look @ that
sitting amid the flowers
in spring dress of white & pink
fiddling with some brand
plastic music new device
complete with paper cup
of orange & wine
eye behind the tree
whose name i don’t,
at present, know
there beneath is conduit posted & twin
dawn dimmed lamps
seated in a rare patch
well maintained mixture
this complete disk
of sand & soil
how she struggles
with her laptop machine
& cellular telephone
under this sun
where the fat men pay off
the homeless to alleviate
the misery of joviality
as i {inadvertently} am
with palm stylus
perched beneath these
yellow trumpets
contemplating floral species
in the echoing hall of smell & touch
“Morning Glories!”
i explode in Union Square
“Not really,” she firingly departs
I suspect them all
of being lilies
Love it.