Conflictus Review » Pia Taavila http://conflictusreview.com Publishing Expression About Conflict Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:02:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://conflictusreview.com http://umwblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/conflictus.jpg Conflictus Review Hesitation – Pia Taavila http://conflictusreview.com/2010/04/11/hesitation-pia-taavila/ http://conflictusreview.com/2010/04/11/hesitation-pia-taavila/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:09:37 +0000 colbyproffitt http://conflictusreview.com/?p=368 See that man, standing in the garden?


How long will he linger,
hands in his pockets,
lips pursed, as if to sing?


The lark beats him to it
as he gazes, horizons
beyond his meager grasp.


While he pauses, bones
and thoughts calcify
though purple irises beat their heads
against his wastrel thighs.


Pluck the roses while in bloom:
morning is the time.

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what hollow thing eats at you?

Is your mind/body meandering

nothing more than youthful gaming?

Or does death knock at your ribcage,

its filthy fingers picking at your mortar?

Stand down from these heights

before the quicksand covers you over

and I can no longer cup your fleeting pulse.

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