from RITUAL
The world is white and moving
John Findura holds an MFA from The New School. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a guest blogger for The Best American Poetry, his poetry and criticism appear in journals such asVerse, Fugue, Fourteen Hills, Copper Nickel, No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, Jacket, and Rain Taxi, among others. Born in Paterson, he lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and daughter.
Birds play with a twig of millet
I make signals with my fingers
No one understands what I say
This is the way I want it, I get it
I make signals with my fingers
No one understands what I say
This is the way I want it, I get it
2. Evaluate The Broken Things
Your hands make me dirtier
than I was at the beginning
I do not mind that at all, love
Luck provides me many things:
I have your cleansing mouth
than I was at the beginning
I do not mind that at all, love
Luck provides me many things:
I have your cleansing mouth
3. Re/Evaluation of Movement
There has been little, and only
on one side – meaning both
sides, but independent of each
other, yet obviously showing
the causal effect of your words
on one side – meaning both
sides, but independent of each
other, yet obviously showing
the causal effect of your words
4. Re/Evaluation of Motion
One of us is a defective clock
and the other is a boomerang
You think you know which
is which but I have promised
the silent cuckoo I’ll never tell
and the other is a boomerang
You think you know which
is which but I have promised
the silent cuckoo I’ll never tell
John Findura holds an MFA from The New School. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a guest blogger for The Best American Poetry, his poetry and criticism appear in journals such asVerse, Fugue, Fourteen Hills, Copper Nickel, No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, Jacket, and Rain Taxi, among others. Born in Paterson, he lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and daughter.