The Barker's Voice: A Journal of Arts and Letters

Zen and the Birds of Obscurity: Kingfisher 2 by Al Nash, 2009. Medium: Collage

Zen and the Birds of Obscurity: Kingfisher 2 by Al Nash

Euphoria

by Edgar Trejo

 Beginning now.

	Freeze hum. Water, an orange book.

		Crunching of teeth, of wits, foot scrapes across the floor.

			Flat air balanced a flat bottle.

				The smell of dead algea in a sea of asphalt.

					Dull pain, Bob cut, clipped wings.

						Ombre greens and a chain of keepsakes.

Slam, hinge slams.

	Ambient brodouchiness.

		The keyboard sits, chafed faces,

			The long, brushed table.

				A pen, atchoo, neon strings

					Of accent colours meander

						In a restless parallel.

The Sounds,

	alzheimers,

		A pen, atchoo, neons strings

			Of Accent colors. Alzheimer's,

				A pen.

					Gelatin water, crysstal nebulae,

						Jeweled backpacks and studded glasses,

							Nude grey leggings,

								A hipster.

Coiling chords in blank white sockets,

	Trifold shadows, fathered light.

		Blue, restless quietus in a cloud of white

			Exit Red, taciturn, mint sprigs

				In the black coils, ricochet,

					Five seconds. Combs, curled by

						Separation.

A squiggle, scrath five knocks,

	Typing, crunch, type scratch, phlegm.

		Silence. Blue,

			Clouded in a blanket of whites,

				The world suspends,

					In a dome of our making.

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