- Non-Erotic Poetry
- monolith
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unknowing,
in the midst of calculating
the signal to noise ratio of a hydrogen bomb that could fracture tectonics
the impact of colliding quasars on quarks
the bottom of a fractal
a door swung open
a door clicked shut
and dejected shoes
thumped softly
down the corridor
for the last time
- COMMENTS
KOLKOREover 17 years agoIntense and cohesive. Filled with existential angst, but you feel it, correction - mostly you can hear it! And the up and down movement between galactic images and intimate ones unites the universe into one reverberating and seemingly potentially highly unstable universe. Can someone turn down the volume?
Anonymousover 17 years ago...the unassuming intelligence used in this poem. monolith in lower case is the perfect title. Congrats on a winner MinnieMo.
Tess - admiringly.
duddle146over 17 years agoDid I just step through the literary door to the Twilight Zone ~ mystical happenings.
LeBrozover 17 years agoAll those images of trying to solve such minor mysteries while the greatest mystery of all results in his walking down the hall. That's the mystery requiring the greatest time and exploration by a man ~ what goes on in the mind of a woman?
