IMAGE OF EARTH AND QUILL

Guest Poet Susan B. Frischer



FINALITY

Akimbo, he stands alone
looking by not directly at the spot.
He looks into some
unreachable cosmos
into which only he is allowed.

A desperate movement is made.
Not by him, but the other.
A hollow laugh
jumps from the emptiness
and he slowly begins to walk away.

Once again there is some
weak shuffling
but he kicks the debris
away with little effort.
He is gone.

From a secluded haven
a child crawls toward
the crumpled mass
and silently says goodbye
to his mother forever.


November, 1998


Susan B. Frischer's Questions:

1. Is the form that I am using acceptable?

2. Is the language which I use too simple?


Correspond with Susan B. Frischer at
sbfrischer@aol.com
with your ideas about this poem.



The Albany Poetry Workshop