Painting by Billy Wing
Al Fresco Café Poems #214
Renata's Poem:
The Birth Of The Author #51
Behind a bank, asphalt parking lot,
asphalt soft in strong sun light,
asphalt has scales
like a fish.
The asphalt parking lot is a black fish
swimming in a lake of sunlight.
A bird flies overhead,
the bird’s shadow swallowed by the black fish,
but the bird’s wings are wine red
and intoxicate.
Duane Locke
Posted over on Cezanne's Carrot
Duane writes:
The two poems, Al Fresco Cafe Poems, 213 and 214, are part of a long series. The beginning poems are about people rushing to the Al Fresco Cafe to have fun before they die. Everyone is certain that he or she will soon be killed by a terrorist. The protagonist of the poem has been promised by Renata that she will meet him at the Cafe. But she never shows. When these poems take place, he waited 214 days for Renata. While he waits, he reviews her poems. These poems of Renata are among her last, after she has broken away from creative writing classes. The earlier poems of her have the professor's comments attached.
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