The Trike Returns:
Knot
Richard C. Williams
Home
Welcome
Contents
Contact Us
Join Our Mailing List
What's New
Site Map
Site Search
Swan of Ebon Shame
That you would be ashamed
of ebon feathers, a lean posture
may be motive to move onward,
to burrow beside a lake you say is evil,
a swag of secrets, the rarest carp
and the reeds like dead man's fingers
reaching out through the brume.
Shame lies thick on your neck,
a jet-black shroud; hardly armor
against the rasping whispers of
skunkweed and eyeless cattails.
You shrink in their erect stature,
flee toward the tar-thick lip of murk.
It's all so clear now, unlike your
boggy reflection -- a swiveling silhouette
in the lame ripple of mimics. The
honed strands of laughter pelt from
behind. Still, you set your stance
and dive, elegant as any swan of ivory.
~Richard C. Williams
Richard C. Williams resides in New York City with his significant other and five feline companions. He is a graphics/web designer, and editor of Pierian Springs. Recent publications include: Artemis Journal, Comrades, 3rd Muse, Snow Monkey, Pig Iron Malt, Niederngasse, TRYST, Mentress Moon, Erosha, among others.
© 2002 by Richard C. Williams. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated August 31, 2002.