MICROPOETRY: THE PERIPHRASTICALLY ABUSED BETTE NOIRE

By Colin James

THE PERIPHRASTICALLY ABUSED BETTE NOIRE

It's a reach, I know.

Damsels of the bucolic abort

like distant gunfire.

Pretty dazed.

Conventional logic has flown,

every sense hobbled.

I prefer we share a table

in one of those cyber cafes.

Read me some of your work.

A panacea is the sound of your voice.

We will have Tuesday to recover.

                                                                                  

Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski's Porch Press and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. Formally from the UK, he now lives in Massachusetts.