Trivia
by John Eivaz
(Jackson Pollock's Lucifer
hung in a girl's bedroom
until she left for college
and then was placed
in a common area of the house)
was that cigarette paper
held in the painting
a hiccup, or a creation, or
just a something simply
wondered about by strangers
later on
child explications
chain this dancing chaos
events pleasures people theories and fears
of naive life and mentation rob
beauty from fury
cigarette paper in a girl's bedroom,
dribbled, splashed faces
gab-twisted away
details in the devil
chaos in each framed
moment
moment
unreflected
landscape with broken glass
A pickup truck
packed with crutches.
Bald tires left by the side of the road,
seen through fumes.
A short man and narrow streets meet,
klaxon in the fog.
Disappearing woman
snaps shut her clutch.
I stride barefoot over shards, they
paint me, here, without you.
Five Short Poems
Despair
makes you do strange things to your hair
Throughout The Ages
Despair,
historically
made them do strange things
to their hair
The Retro Look
again despair
making them do strange things to their hair
In Love
their despair
made them do strange things to each others' hair
Funereal
despair
is no excuse for strange-looking
hair
©2001 by John Eivaz