2 March 2002 | Vol. 2, No. 1
Polaroid of a Day In Progress
It's Sunday
A cold coffee growl in a kitchen
A girl brushing the color poison on the heart
of the prisoner she paints
Caramel liquifying into syrup which will
run down the chins of youth in afternoon
A woman with the mind of a six-year-old
accessorizing for church in candy jewelry
A mother measuring the fever of bathwater
running for her child's naked dolls
Here and there
eternity lingers
In the melon shaped marbled bellies of statues
announcing cultural sanctuaries
Deep in the bowels of moist concrete solidifying
into sidewalks
In a delicious celebration of grass and men
recorded by a poet waltzing
with a stranger in sleep
About the author:
Shelly Reed writes in Norwalk, Iowa, where she enjoys regular silence. Her work appears extensively online and in print, nationally and internationally. Recent poems appear or are scheduled for appearance with Comrades, Sometimes City, Wilmington Blues, and 2River.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Shelly Reed at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 2, No. 1, where "Polaroid of a Day In Progress" ran on March 2, 2002. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
