In the Middle of the Bench
by Joe Zealberg
After Carlos Drummond de Andrade
In the middle of the bench there was a black patch and cane
there was a black patch and cane in the middle of the bench
there was a black patch and cane
in the middle of the bench there was a black patch and cane.
I’ll never forget that young veteran
clenched in my unblinking eyes.
I’ll never forget that in the middle of the bench
there was a black patch and cane
in the middle of the bench there was a black patch and cane.
Joe Zealberg, MD attends an ongoing poetry workshop in Charleston, South Carolina with a group known as “The Long Table Poets,” under the direction of Richard Garcia. This is his second appearance in qarrtsiluni.
Categories: Imitation
Mesmerizing. Incredibly beautiful. Like the flutter of falling cards, or the ordered tangle of a polyrhythm, while making us feel for what was in the middle of the bench.
wow …
It is extraordinary, Joe
elisabeta & petraq