Not Going Anywhere - Robert Morris

Not Going Anywhere

darling she said
not that you'd leave
but should I find you
if you do
I think you know
what I'd do.
Things, born of love
threats
drops of poison from a bottle
I'm not forgiving
I'd throttle you
and if there were another woman
I'd kill her too
now let's forget all this
come sit here
in your favourite chair
I know
you'd not
go
anywhere.

Robert Morris

http://www.smallchangepress.com.au/titles.htm

Levels of Incapacity - Jane Williams

Levels of Incapacity

it seems only yesterday

he was free loving his way

around a world open to

suggestion his suggestion

now unexpectedly sixty

the wrong side of a pension

fresh from a triple bypass

he shouldn’t have survived

trying to explain why he prefers

meditation to medication

for the pain he can’t otherwise prove

to the young customer service officer

wearing jeans for genes day

(there’s a brochure on his desk)

smiling rhetoric like the myth

of his own immortality depends on it

gauge your level of incapacity

professional evaluation

here to assist you in any way we can

back into the workforce

Jane Williams

http://janewilliams.wordpress.com/

Storm - Jonathan Hadwen

Storm

like a storm that does not mean to sink a ship

your sadness settles on this tiny house,

we founder, the dog and I

until gasping we flee outside,

a brief saunter in the eye

while over dripping trees

clouds can be seen

all around.

Jonathan Hadwen

http://www25.brinkster.com/jkhey/poetry/index.asp