A Piscine Ploy

A PISCINE PLOY


Suspended in anticipation;
slow motion animation
is the name

of their new game.
They could be simply basking
in the sun

but I
with cynics heart and eye
suspect more base Intent.

Scatter
a few morsels
of delight –

Shatter
their tranquillity.
They swoop

like vultures –
swiftly devour
a non-resisting prey.




Malcolm Evison
3 – 8 September 2006

A Spun Illusion

A SPUN ILLUSION


A few slender lines
of spider silk

stretch
between wild grasses

deflect
and tantalize
the sun’s beams –

like wingless dragonflies -
a plenitude of insects seems
to haunt the lines –

an intermittent
iridescent sheen

darts between threads
and blithely skips

along the spider’s
anchoring



Malcolm Evison
8 September 2006

SONG FOR D

SONG FOR D

Sometimes an unforced smile

masks out fragility, band-aid

applied instead

of tourniquet. Sometimes

a fought for strength

defies understanding –

proclaims that everything

will be alright –

denies the fault line

that strives to undermine

the songs foundation.

Sometimes

we must return, strive

to uncover

a truth already known.

Malcolm Evison
3 September 2006