S. K. Kelen Life Poems

• 1. Fission
  White glow melts life
  freezes shadow, twisted bottle
  the birth of the transistor
  and then.
  ...
• 2. Venice
  Bugsa Bunny you're the sanest man
  in all Italia last hope for risorgimento
  singing Santa Lucia in the barber shop
  glorious ears twitching your gondola
  ...
• 3. Understand
  wild animals become divinely rare
  their habitats wild homes are soft earth & tree
  cannot flee before the bulldozer concrete
  flame and smoke desert where only wheat
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• 4. Thousand Star Hotel, Hanoi
  I.
  
  Over the road from the three star Galaxy Hotel is our hotel,
  the old park on Phan Dinh Phung Street,
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• 5. The Spheres
  I
  
  The sun is burning a hole in your pocket
  and though very slowly you are making
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• 6. The Leech
  Apart from its voracious appetite for mammalian blood
  little is known of the leech's ways. Does it know love or
  family life? is there communication?
  Leaf litter's monster weapon, what can you say
  ...
• 7. The Cafe Bear
  Out back of the cafe a square iron cage
  made hard corners for a honey bear
  the boys saved from a bulldozer.
  Crouched like a dog, the cage
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• 8. Down Time
  Who steers the thunderbolt?
  Events conspire: there's the one
  Growling like a tigress, calls you ‘mate'.
  Choose life. Love's duty will not wait.
  ...

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