Alex Nodopaka
Dog tag

Spurned, dejected, rejected,
a collar I loop.

A noose I become
primed for hanging.

my tree is chosen
a sturdy branch selected,

high enough,

from whence I'll swing,

my feet

brushing the ground.

My body shall

twist and twirl some and dangle

beneath

the noose around my neck
keeping my breath away.

Suspended,
my soul shall flicker away.

Of me, only a dog-tag

memento

shall remain.


07-03
Alex Nodopaka's first one-man show: Ukraine, 1940. First finger paintings: Austria, 1946. Doodling, sketching, sculpting since then. Studied tongue-in-cheek: Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco. Now in the USA. Artist, instructor, judge, self-appointed critic in the arts & even pretends to write poetry.  email:  A.Nodopaka
06-03