r i g h t  h a n d  p o i n t i n g

short fiction  short poetry  short commentary  short...uh..art
 

 

     
  Lynn Strongin

Ordinary Battles / Extraordinary

 

 
Late night above the 49th parallel O Canada!  North:            usual battles
           extraordinary ones:
too much work   too little  won:
looking at newsreels of Sarajevo, Beslan. . .
a friend’s daughter with metastasized cancer phones:
lungfulls.
The Broken Man coming.

Stars so bright they hurt the eyes:
can you imagine baroque
lace covering night?            Metastasis.

        The extraordinary battle-challenges             & the common one:
        Here comes      Peter Wise      tall as a stalk
        he will balk     the broken man both hands tied behind his back with thin
whipcord               will not talk.
 

 

 

 

Contributors
Table of Contents
Main Page

 

 

 

r i g h t  h a n d  p o i n t i n g 

 

All rights reserved. All poems, fiction, articles, essays, and artwork are the property of the authors and artists within, and as such, are protected by applicable U.S. and international copyright law. Copying or reprinting in any form is prohibited without the expressed permission of the author or artist.