#discovered form

[spiffyb]

Photograph

I have gone to a distant land

because of what you said.

I travelled in a caravan

past snaking rivers and wild wheat fields

seeking to gather up their yields.

I thought you would be happy.

I thought I would find something

buried in the sand, some pirate’s treasure

or at least a feeling

Yet I am more lost than ever.

[spiffyb]

Tabloid Headlines

Heavy metal horrors

farmhouse festivals

toilets Tattoo

I’ll never be the star of a Broadway musical.

There was writing on that wall:

Young stars need Instagram, coffee,

a cute story, a new dress.

Lost stars want letters

written free on adult, green tables whose

Baroque beach novels

became elite objects.

Why deny disaster?

Can’t reshape today.

Today comes calling.

You don’t know how near you come.

Attempts, they take three

to be on TV.

We could take a bow

in front of my window,

looking out on heavy metal horrors

like a Broadway musical.