Dislocation

 

“The Vagaries of Luck” by Alejandro Montañez

 
old minds new things

incompatible concepts

change comes on like a train

sound and fury and speed

compose calculus of fear

the terrors of infirmity

facing new regimens

details unknown

unforeseeable therapies

incomplete panoplies

unrecognizable faces

peer out from the shadows

what spaces await

disobedient bones

to accommodate

badly turned plans

no grave will be made

in a north country forest

whose trees will have

since disappeared

like their very own

leaves of a season

the once cherished

rural aesthetic forsaken

by force of the flesh

the unkindness of time

will decide where and when

for new endings

the power to write them

transferred and invested in

vagaries given to chance

Jumble

 

“Untitled” by Donald Deskey

 

disappointment of doors

leading outside or inside

no scenery wants so much red

deathly underlit mauve

its shadowy residue

cold with old warning

architectural visions

of nowhere worth living

time moves against matter

drives into antithesis

emptiness framed by

acute mental millwork

inanimate space pulled

and piled in places austere

arch and angle deranged

rearranged here then there

strange tomorrows

erected with beams

made of yesterday’s bones

no location survives in its roots

nothing permanent stands

every piece of geometry

lent to the notion of puzzles

those intricate well-setup

structures of mind

are the sooner or later

abandoned displaced by

a mischievous gravity forcing

its own anatomical construct

a tangible thing an existence

whose moveable form

is a jumble of fears

for the future