space is the great
listener, one great
pause to reflect
i shout into voids
waiting
for word boomerang
echo’s take
and give
up there somewhere
is the one
perfect
conversation
everything said
just right
pithy, and articulate
no space for lament—
the miles my words
have traveled
beheld
between blinks
of your eyes
~ Ben Murray
Ben Murray is an Edmonton-based writer whose poetry has appeared in many journals, including Descant, Quills, Grain, Carousel, CV2, The Windsor […]
Filed under: Ben Murray by akublik Date 10 April, 2008
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it’s a man’s world of
unzip dangle and no-contact
elevator eyes, of drain and
scowl and maybe rinse,
roll-up towels and sleeves
germ runways ready
for take-off
in this world my
wayward peripheral quick
double-takes a man
post-business tucking-in
and buckling up; sinkward-bound
this man is none other than
a Nobel Laureate for Literature,
this writer for the ages having
stained porcelain air with
piss as noble and fragrant
as mine perhaps, […]
Filed under: Ben Murray by akublik Date 7 April, 2008
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In forty below wind
a proud saw-whet owl
stares in my window
perched on the deck rail
eyes like meteors,
wild as the aurora.
Tame in disposition,
hunters tell of its
guileless trust,
so friendly
it has become endangered.
In the barn later
it hunkers on the floor,
eyes closed
forehead on the straw,
sad as a cold derelict
on a rain soaked bench.
It does not flee
the dog’s inquisitive nose,
nor fight […]
Filed under: Dymphny Dronyk by akublik Date 3 April, 2008
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