Poems Niederngasse

Valerie Fox
Static

I live in a place that's flat, like the earth
and my bed is even flatter

and expansive despite D's romantic
marginalia in his yellowed Descartes.

My life including the present has always been blurry
and all of a sudden it became blurrier.

The first episode in our series of adventures
led to our second cocktail,

so to speak, and with the true ignorance
of the censor I'll stop right here.

On the beach I found a cap and two shoes
"that were not fellows"

to me they were dead
no matter how much fun you were having

1 January 2005, round IV, poem 16

Valerie Fox is based in Philadelphia. Her poems have appeared in
Hanging Loose, West Branch, The World, and numerous other journals.  She is currently obsessively writing a long series of poems, From A  Dream Dictionary. email:  Valerie Fox