Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Poems by Matthea Harvey

*Some Poems by Matthea Harvey*

SETTING THE TABLE

To cut through night you'll need your sharpest scissors. Cut around the birch, the bump of the bird nest on its lowest limb. Then with your nail scissors, trim around the baby beaks waiting for worms to fall from the sky. Snip around the lip of the mailbox and the pervert's shoe peeking out from behind the Chevy. Before dawn, rip the silhouette from the sky and drag it inside. Frame the long black stripe and hang it in the dining room. Sleep. When you wake, redo the scene as day in doily. Now you have a lacy fence, a huge cherry blossom of a holly bush, a birch sugared with snow. Frame the white version and hang it opposite the black. Get your dinner and eat it between the two scenes. Your food will taste just right.


YOU HAVE MY EYES

Give them Back.


OUT OF ORDER

Today it's about truth and hope

and there are no ha-ha's

between me and the living.

World, I'm no one

to complain about you.


All poems from Modern Life by Matthea Harvey

7 comments:

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    Its each and every lines are very fantastic.

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  3. The poetry is beautiful. I adore fellow poets, and poetry lovers.. it's nice to see others who share the love of word.

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  4. i love short poems. these are beautiful.

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  5. nice poems! Thanks for sharing <3

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  6. I like fellow poets and lovers of poetry .. it's nice to see people who share a love of words.

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