Visual Poetry AKA VizPo
The Proper Thing
To Burn the Night
from “Two Young Lovers”
It takes
rest
This all day
low point
ignore the hate
he paid for it
the money extravagant
his language
I see
the man
and walk
down toward him.
I have
come back
to burn the night
the work
won’t be safe for
the children
I’m sorry Listen.
this mess is
the only home I’ve ever had
A Sharp Startle
from “The Pink Lady”
distinct the feeling
I could neither move nor speak
he was gone.
I had fallen silent
as if
That night
had actually happened.
I stood out
bare
my experience,
a sharp startle
he terrified that
home.
My experience was
a sensation of being followed
at night
My
mother experienced this many times
It became common for each of us