rdking.net

Collected Poetry

    (rd king dot net)
poetry and digital art

Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  Still Life with Idling Engines

It was the way spring smacked me in the face
to gather my attention; then, helped me
to look at the brilliant red bush thriving
before the white, block wall—a newly-leafed birch

rising above in a photographic panegyric,
of sorts, as I waited in the fast food franchise
drive-thru lane.  It appeared so wildly unreal
that I, distracted, wondered if this was the real life

and not some errant but lovely thought:
some girls stood and walked toward
the embossed waste receptacle, moving through
the florescent light as stable surfaces

collected suddenly around some
surprisingly mobile skeletal planes.



             back | ToC | next

© 2015 rdking