Literary Orphans

Headlines of a Lilliputian Life by Grant Tarbard

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Difficult is the coming

of my goldfish words

snared in mind’s pincers,

bawling in silence,

fumbled with distraction,

savage, dreadful.

I long for the capering

locomotive sentence

bathing in a corolla,

seen through the sharp

black corona of my pupil,

drowning in all too much colour

in the moment’s crust,

adding the doings and who-ings

of a life unspectacular

but, in a hair’s breadth,

I can be the god

of the little clockwork motions

in a slight finger’s tremble

and a tug at the shirtsleeve.

The machinations of now

and then in a rose covered grave,

plots, intrigues, ruses and tricks,

to life in the moment, a perfect bubble.

The mindfulness of breathing,

now is the eternity.

 

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Grant Tarbard is internationally published. His chapbook Yellow Wolf, published by WK Press, is available now.

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–Art by Barbara Florczyk

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