[New-Poetry] "Cherubim"

[Halvard Johnson]

Cherubim


ramble out of that blue-green Bolivian sky
digital pulses, neural synapses

black woody cherry
(are you a gambler, fella?)
for yellow or green nymphs
concubinage with meals--

			manzanos y plátanos
			arroz con pollo

neutral ground for both--black, yellow, and especially red, your
team-teaching at the tomb of the unknown gambler,
abuse in general, neutral federalists contrition, cool cowards all.

seizing the neutral topic with great relief, sat together over apple pie
and black coffee, figurines with sexual connotations, words
that come dashing over the river on packets of data,
situation neither formal nor informal,
neither cyan, magenta, nor black.

one transparently unsuccessful statesman confesses that
pessimism was not a neutral observer of history

swatches of yellow, ambiguous smiles,
secretly pleased with themselves.




Hal

Serving the tristate area.

Halvard Johnson
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