An Old Near Abandoned Kitchen: Poems • Empty Mirror

Gordon Skagit Indian Corn - image: D. Enck — Skagit Corn – photo by D. Enck

AN OLD NEAR ABANDONED KITCHEN

In that crypt where dead thoughts are stashed
these classical notes
wander my brain
and peel off the scents
of musty numb and muted pain
born of the music of the dead

…a sacrament of crumbs in the drain
from water, wine, and crusty bread!

SCROOGE

The season’s first frost!
…tomorrow at dawn.
I wait for the cold
and wait in the cold
while the blood in my cheeks
goes pale and old
like a ghostly, heavenly, song!

THE POLITICAL OUTCAST

In what stew of fatigue
emotionally ambiguous
spawned from a groan
like the sound of a frog
and cooked and stirred
by History’s winds

…in what friendless meal
do the dead among us
arrive to be eaten?,

day by day
and with money’s exchange!

Sam Silva

Sam Silva has published over 150 poems in print magazines, including Sow's Ear, The ECU Rebel, Pembroke Magazine, Samisdat, St. Andrew's Review, Charlotte Poetry Review, Main Street Rag and others. Has published at least 300 poems in online journals including Jack Magazine, Comrades, Megaera, Poetry Super Highway, physik garden, Ken again, -30-, Fairfield Review, Foliate Oak, and dozens of others. He is a frequent contributor to Empty Mirror.

His chapbooks have been published by three small presses, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize seven times. Bright Spark Creative of Wilimington published his first full-length book, EATING AND DRINKING.

He now has many books and chapbooks available at lulu.comsamsilva54 and as books available at Amazon. His spoken word poetry is available at the major digital markets such as Apple iTunes. Follow him on Twitter @samsilva1954.