Borders

Act I

Like two tanks facing off
their eyes lock over the small round table.
noses wagging,
hers up and down, pointing, punctuating;
his side to side, flailing.

Act II

Subito, eyes askance,
they assume devil-may-care
askew stance, guns called off,
no territory ceded
one to the other.

Act III

She rises;
oblique his stony stare,
knees jiggling.
The wars for now
garbaged with her cup,
exeunt stage left past the magazines,
hand in hand.

copyright 2006 Nancy B. Knowles

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Pine (February)
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copyright 2006 Nancy B. Knowles

The Moment (song)
[click on title]

by Frank Wallace, 2001, set to poem by Theodore Roethke
from the Duo LiveOak CD Woman of the Water, available at
www.gyremusic.com

At Dusk, the Cold Front

Out of the great nothing,
something

You, lighters of lanterns,
wait


The stars will illumine
your way

They wait for the dark,
steady

They watch the winds
swirl


Meanwhile the door
percusses

Asleep, the puppy
groans

Out there the bell, old now,
clinks


Will the stars fathom
my words?

And I
their winks?

All around, the forest
roars.


Saturday January 21 2006
copyright 2006 Nancy B. Knowles

Pot
[click on image to enlarge]

copyright 2006 Nancy B. Knowles

A Falling Darkness (song)
[click on song title to hear]

from the song cycle A Single Veil by Frank Wallace,
from Duo LiveOak's CD Woman of the Water
available at www.gyremusic.com

me be
me be
maybe

let
me
be
one

hummm
and
then
done

one
small
crumb



copyright 2006 Nancy B. Knowles