Tag Archive: shrinking


It’s Around Here Somewhere

The mirror clearly said msispilos
so I took it and smashed it repeatedly,
vehemently before shocked onlookers
until all I had left was a single splinter
of the handle in my hand.

And that – as they say – is that.

Chagall 2015

Picking Up The Pieces

chagall backdrop

Those two
at the roadside
never cease to yap

She the handsome one
and she the beauty

A warm bubble
about them
Foggy morning
light grey-gold
sweet syrups
of seduction

I do listen
(after all
they’re me)

They point me
to the parade

I decide what we do
as long as there’s just
us three

Though sometimes she joins
a ravishing mystic
in indigo silk

Little else underneath
she trumps the pack
this forest mist being

But we always see
eye to eye

We promise each other
a truer day

We four
we adore

© Chagall 2013