scarecrow poetics/essays

You haven't watched the news this evening
therefore
you'd hardly catch
that in France the trains have run off the rails
that in Germany
the snow-storms have obstructed the highways
the others round them have escaped the frost somehow

and this summer
Florida was devastated by the typhoons

France Germany and the others
that have escaped somehow
not that they are not used to it
to stand the rage
icy spell
and to anticipate the next big wave

not that they are not used to it

But just dare to tell me that the world
in some child's notebook is a cute heart
almond-shaped in the left side

Observed from whatever angle on the map
Florida resembles a phallus
frankly speaking it's asking for
the typhoons

slight echo of the arch
slight earthquake
everything else

what else what more
there are no victims, are there
or there are some

Everything else for which I started all this
is only between you and me
the only culprit for love's not around any more

Rositza Pironska 2006.