Wednesday, July 20, 2022

GAS Featured Poet: Gerry Fabian



He has published four books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts and Ball On The Mound.
In addition, he has published four novels : Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, Seventh Sense and Ghost Girl. 
His web page  


Hidden Danger
 
Holding a slight advantage
in various venues
determines the degree.
Depth of situations
elongate mini-moments.
Never exist like this.
 
Detouring the collapse
always fails -
Negating any luck
generates rapid response.
Enter with extreme caution
rather than broken bravado.



When The Fad Fades Away

 

You were in my creative writing class.
With your black Goth girl clothing
and multiple piercings,
you felt they marked you as creative.
You sat in the back with ear buds
and never took a note.
The final grade was based on a portfolio
of work completed during the semester.
When I opened your folder,
all it contained was a stained grocery list.

 

Today, several years later,
I see you in Walmart
pushing a stroller
while holding a screaming toddler
on your hip.
Our eyes meet but you quickly
turn away and hurry down another aisle.
You drop something in your haste,
I go over and pick it up.
It is a grocery list
and I resist the urge 
to correct the misspellings.



Requiescat Canto V
The Maze

 

Is it a matter of escape
that so gluts the brain
so as to fuse the torment
into a walking sloth
that spews wounded oaths
at chairs and walls -
that falls to the floor
and writhes in a fire singe
of personal doubts -
that freezes motion
for hours upon hours
in a living altar sacrifice
to atone for the anguish
that has no other escape.

 

I have been to the brink,
wavered at the edge
and stopped the fall
just often enough
to know that escape
has captured too many
of the people I love.  

 

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