The End of the World Through a Fish Bowl • Empty Mirror

In summer time
I am an air conditioned icicle
…in winter, the steam which haunts the house.

I will not go into the grocery store with you Rachel
…I will ride along in the car
and be a witness to the distant terror of the world.
Images pass along through glass
much like the traffic of TV
…but I have lost the courage and strength
to go inside
and dance around these fat and hungry savages,
these muscled trolls who stroll and block the aisles
sneering with the powerful joy
of their consumption.

I will wait and stare through glass
for my girl-hero to return
to the sanctuary of our automobile
(our horseless miracle)
with a good natured oblivion
to those inner things which terrorize…

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.

Sam Silva

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