Friday, June 8, 2012

Writing the Numbers Valentine

The way 8 is or isn’t
a gifted (belly) dancer
or 6 an abrupt refusal
a complete dismissal
or the way 7 changes
the subject completely
or 5 finally goes there
to the wedding of 10
the divorce in 4
the stroke of 1
the death of 9
leaving us 2
alone with a third
not me not you
no word
no clue

1 comment:

William Keckler said...

I love number poems. There are not enough since Khlebnikov stared and starved himself away.