Dumb Saint Scribe
Giddy nomad with hidden
word diamonds under his
enchanted wrap,
A smile from madness and joy
as blue as eyes,
as blue as glass
as blue as skies,
as green as mystic shroud
and tattered needles
tipping the inkwell
of a daydream.
(Life Sketches in Blue; Chapter I: Since Adam's Fall)
Nod
You wear moist love
of secret rhythm night
you seep slow wet fire
musk to haunt my smile
Your porcelain dance
of sensual light lifts burden
smolders and drains ambition
by dreams in this land of Nod.
( Life Sketches in Blue; Chapter I: Since Adam's Fall)
Last Pledge
I pledge allegiance
to the disunited hopefuls
of America,
United under one
rainy newsstand
To the families in
tenement apartments
who eat food
as a communion
with their God
To the greasy spoons,
to the five and dime,
to the inevitable haircut
at the side street barber
To the only liberty
that stands on Liberty
Island in the harbor
And just one friend
to say cheers
at the local bar over
an after hours' beer
To make a mortal mark on the world,
to create an immortal memory for all.
( Life Sketches in Blue; Chapter IV: We Stand)
Cyber mail highway
Your e-mail and the follow-up one
came through that electric highway
and left no parking tickets behind,
it stopped for a coffee and a cigarette
and maybe some trim too
but who knows what those
electronic signals do,
zeros and ones still from a virtual
sphere echo the equation
for the universe,
zero divided by zero equals
balance
just know that cyberspace
is where thought and business fly
inclusive of the techno nations
and the little guy
And if you listen real close
you can hear the b flat tone
from your electric box
is the same b flat
from outer space.
(CP Journal # 2 & Life Sketches in Blue; Chapter VI: Beneath the Abstractions)
Yellow Paint
Canary sunset on white sand stolen from the goddess of a tropical island.
Mango banana light layered on this abode, layers brushed by many hands.
Silence exudes from this lemon surface with empty windows wide,
split clapboard showing bottomless slits where paint never hid,
pillows untouched on an empty bed. A chimney with no smoke and
a train track where trains never stop.
A porter with memories of that same house when it was blue.
A tale not told of raw rum, smoky light, slurred notes, and mason jar gin,
sipped through sloppy grins. Gumbo perfumes intoxicated minds and hearts,
with a thirst in spiritual lust. Candles dwindled while lovers kindled.
All before dawn having to run out back to not get shot leaving the Sugar shack-
as lemonade gin fizz spilled down the steps.
A framed matting with three spotted feathers on a wall in the back hall hung
by a person no one knew who hung those same feathers from a hunting trip,
to commemorate this as a train stop.
No new soul will ever know the three feather ceremony, the juke joint scramble,
the porter whose mind rambled reminiscing of brighter times from blue days or
the brightness outside concealing the darkest brilliance inside. These were exceptional
moments of impermanence.
As birds inflect their clarinet warble and throaty rattled speech, the train whistle blows
and shakes the earth, the shack a clamor as the Metro North rolls on.
Cracked as a clay riverbed, a yellow once risen soaked into hungry walls where
amber tints remain. By night the Milwaukee Special rests in stockyards of Mexico.
Only its ghost light steams past this quiet cobalt friend, this now hollow sunflower dwelling, in the forever night.
(Life Sketches in Blue; Chapter VII: Blue Sketches n' Poems)
BIO:
Originally from Middletown, Yvon J. Cormier, 37, lives with his wife Chrissie and their daughter Anais in West Haven Connecticut. He works as a freelance writer and writes poetry in his spare time.
He writes from an insatiable nomadic intelligence which obsesses over what is unsaid and the seemingly invisible aspects of daily life. His work is rooted in drawing life pictures where words owe a greater debt to what they represent than the reverse.
Some of his work has been published in Long River Run, 2007, The Diarist's Journal, Oct. 2002, and in Covert Press (in print & online).
Book Info:
Yvon's chapbook of Jazz & Blues influenced poetry & prose sketches is titled Life Sketches in Blue (Select Edition), and is scheduled for release May 15, 2008 through D/e/a/d/b/e/a/t/ Press
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