21 July 2006 | Vol. 6, No. 2
The Paper Weights
The suicidal king lays his sword down
and genuflects.
Mother's breasts flutter to the table,
"They won't hold up," she says.
The rest of her cards fly
on bowed wings.
She casts her head into the sunrise,
then bends enough to see Mt. Falcon,
one curtain flails like a tethered bird.
About the author:
Brian Dickson has lived mostly in the southwest, working various jobs in coaching, Italian food delivery, tutoring, and, after finishing his MA at CU-Boulder, teaching for CCConline. His work has appeared in Zaum 8, Copper Nickel, Stickman Review, Lilliput Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Blue Mesa Review, and others.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Brian Dickson at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 6, No. 2, where "The Paper Weights" ran on July 21, 2006. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
