Marsh Hawk Review


                                                                      
Patrick Durgin

    
From Imitation Poems

The sun’s up, frugal and snide.
The problem play commences.
The décor betrays a
Scumbling design war
Took place, as they say,
Here. A fable’s progress
Is endless. True problems
Are unanswered, or else
They were only ever some-
What illegible declaratives.
[Looks up. The sun overlooking.]
A sad air intercepts randy
Waters. In you go! Swim.
Burning off the fat inhibits bruising.
One way or another, it’s going to hurt.
We are lovers, we have at it, we
Dramatize the weak joint
In the body politic.



The docents here, like
Bad operands
In doleful bales of
Didactics,
“Speak.” Don’t believe
A word of it,
I think to myself,
What an
Untoward rant,
Walking families past
Pacing guards
Little squads of stalled
Regards.
For your delusory whetting,
In your catastrophic memoir,
A tonsilitis of consolation,
Anecdotes for karaokists.
I had to look and strain to hear,
At the tall blank wall, and then to
Read the placard there, “deaccessioned”!