Peter Magliocco: Two Poems
WHEN KIKI DANCED
when Kiki danced for Man Ray
flying fish somersaulted
over the Seine
in a breathtaking silver arc
& life returned to the
bridge statues
suffering from decaying verdure (until)
a later Ray-o-gram
consigned
Lee Miller's face & body for eternity
those free-form
shimmering fins despoiling
Kiki's rainbow-teeth eating nature's
excess
RIDERS OF THE STORM
think of solshenitzyns with an e-virus
cooing to a block
of ice
while some band of gypsies rides hellbent
into little cyberhood,
usa
looking for a good time beyond digital life, waiting
for the tower to
fall on you
in Pisa, knowing the earth-hold is tenuous
with voices in the
whirlwind
of red white and blue confetti streamers
pelting embattled
earth:
think of the dinosaurs in raining meteorites
trapped in this
game,
the joystick another whip on Pegasus' back
whose wings we plotted
on
Peter Magliocco's poetry has
appeared in many publication including Taproot, CER*BER*US, Thunder
Sandwich, and Tramafyhr Mountain Poetry among others. He is the
editor of ART:MAG.
