Poems Niederngasse
Alex Chinn
Reconciliation

I often find myself
stranded
just one
complete
change of pace and situation
away from greatness
or at least goodness
or whatever ness I feel I ought to be.
So I feign creativity
fudge it like most
ill-conceived notions
and those that accept my feignings
lap them up with vigor
as if they were starved
for demonstrations of unease
and those that shudder
at my overactive sense of
literary disharmony
turn up their noses
at the perfectly mediocre terms
with which I fortify
my moderately perfect musings
and to them I plead
with the disinterest of a man
who has already skipped
to the end of the play
I say 'Patience,
you might just
come to terms with it
by morning.'


And

And harmony drifted down
in wandering iridescent formations
and dusted over this
and that
and this
and
giddily I crafted a harmony ball
but when the time came to throw it, I
faltered.


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Alex Chinn: a professed dabbler; as a Writing Seminars major at Johns Hopkins University, he continuously jumps between poetry, short stories, and screenplay writing. This is his first poetry publication. email: A.Chinn
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