Words / Pictures

A poem

Originally published in Literally Literary on Jan. 27, 2022.

he eyes her
every move
thinking
she’s his type
feeling
he’s in love
with her love
with her,
his moveable type
cast in cotton

***

she looks
at him
coolly
cat-like
sensing
his unruly
gawk and gaze

distracted,
the fickle lover
of love
wants to take her
to find out
what’s waiting inside
her

***

her dress
is print too,
colourful
cartoonish,
leaving him
wordless and
cooing like a
kitten

hmmm
he says
and kicks into
motion, feeling
moving pictures
move him
in real time

***

words & pictures
completely disappear
and his sense
of which direction
to move in
wafts away
like sulfurous sewer gas
gusting up
from the street
into the cool air

* With acknowledgement to Al Stewart’s “Year of the Cat”