Friday, May 10, 2013

The Face of Janus

Grandiose 
In a woebegone world
Dreaming in an
Insular house,
Or home, 
much more inviting-
Out
The window
A roof tile
Swings in the wind
A boy
Growls
Out his phlegm
Is he schizophrenic,
Daughter asks
I do not know
Move along-
Feral
Cats sit on 
Rusted air conditioners
Two stories up
A red house
With an eternal
Light
All night
A beacon 
The wife was thought
To be 
Buried
There
In the basement
A bottle
Tossed
In the recycle bin
A father
A drunkard
Smokes joints
Behind the
Garage
Shoots off
M-80s
Sings fire in the rain
In my
Home
The piano 
Plays
Fur Elise
My tea cup
My book
I close the blinds. . .

Kim Baker Jacovich






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