Tag Archive: clouds


If I Can’t Make It There

chagall backdrop

I browse quickly at my tag cloud
impressed by artists
losing love
somewhere on the streets
of New York
amour
down the drain
barefoot
on cobblestones
losers of Paris–Roubaix

pigeons
with moves like Jagger
peck at the dead
or maybe just
debris

the ice man
no longer
cometh
’cause every call
is the last
good people
in cold room
flats
live days
railroad style

nothing here is ish
it’s the real thing
except no one
accept that it doesn’t
matter
at all
that it matters
greatly

and the view from atop
the bridge at night
is only outdone
by the sight
of approaching
river

© Chagall, 2013

Float Me


This afternoon,
I tied a balloon,
to the gold pierced ring,
to my navel.

I sense
the trade-winds
on high, tug
my soul
through the taut string.

Umbilical
to cirrus nimbi,
serious business
this nimble coercion
of word to nuance,
motion to notion,
failure to grasp.

Still, to feel jostled
in currents,
suddenly aloft in one giant yank!

I spin like a whirly,
pendulum broad sweeps
across the darkened sky inverted,
sacrificial innocent on a bungee,
just before the fall.

© Carlos Chagall, 2013