Some Friends are Black Mirrors
Some friends are black mirrors
smiling a mournful smile,
distant from an artist’s appeal.
They are indistinguishable in caskets
afraid to applaud expression
and salute
the opulence of fearlessness.
That simple cohesion
that warms a room
icily irritates the frowning resentful.
As a presence curves imagination
for images to roam within,
black mirrors,
elude to pretentiousness,
attempting to ring desire
with a caprice of influence.
But,
oceans roar,
owls watch, wolves chase
and stars are never
an afterthought,
Careful about choosing words,
I distance myself
from shadows undeserved.
I cling steadfastly to creativity
and prefer possibilities
to banality.
Gazing at the obvious
those with glassed frowns
entrenched in literalism
seethe from
abstraction.
I willingly
board the train without a destination
and welcome the disorder
of originality.
I leer
at the melancholy hordes of sameness
and despise
the refrain of majorities
that
clasp tightly to contrition.
I tumble with acuity,
drink in hand,
bare breasts against my chest
in a theatre of
dreams and sensuality.
Long ago,
when
nightfall
promised
imaginative encounters.
I vaulted through a black mirror
and
discovered my reflection
applauding me
on becoming myself.
Philip Butera - received his Masters's Degree in Psychology from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He has published four books of poetry, Mirror Images and Shards of Glass, Dark Images at Sea, I Never Finished Loving You, and Falls from Grace, Favor, and High Places. His fifth, Forever Was Never On My Mind, will be out Summer of 2023. Two novels, Caught Between (Which is also a 24 episodes Radio Drama Podcast https://wprnpublicradio.com/caught-between-teaser/) and Art and Mystery: The Missing Poe Manuscript.
His next novel,
an erotic thriller, Far From Here, will be out Fall of 2023. One play, The
Apparition. His current project is collaborating with a British
photographer, a French artist, and an American graphic artist to produce a
coffee table book in praise of Women. Philip also has a column in the quarterly
magazine Per Niente. He enjoys all things artistic.
Love the poem. Love that photo of you! Pretty sure I'm not one of the friends in the poem 😁
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