the peel will remember
the orange
—for my daughter Serena
old bells
playing at suns must
for waxing moons
or waning peals
the sound of
metaphor racing
cast spells
turning years into dust
and there we are
back again
to the time
when you were four
and we took pictures
of prairie dogs
at the fort worth zoo
you said their holes
were nostrils
in the nose of god
one of us never so happy
to be young
©2021 Paul koniecki All rights reserved.
Paul Koniecki lives and writes in Dallas, Texas. He was once chosen for the John Ashbery Home School Residency. His poems feature in Richard Bailey’s movie “One of the Rough” distributed by AVIFF Cannes. His books are available from Kleft Jaw Press, NightBallet Press, Dark Particle Press, and Spartan Press. Paul proudly sits on the editorial board of Thimble Literary Magazine.
His latest, Go Fast – The Trixie Racer Files, is soon to be out through Between Shadows Press.