Two Poems by Linda King

 

somewhere beyond reason    

 

in this stalled season

there is not enough forest

to mark your way    you must

resign yourself to this lesser green 

small hours    lullaby rain 

your list of what’s been lost

grows longer   all that dazzling debris

more misery waiting in the next town   the downfall

of too much yearning      twilight and whiskey

is the new chemistry of hope    hanging on

to a line of persuasion    somewhere

beyond reason

space will replace all of you 

 

there are no reliable witnesses

everyone speaks the language of loss

everyone in the crosshairs

lines drawn that can never connect

helter-skelter    homespun terror

on every street

 

scorched      and empty space

will replace     all of you

as if you were never there

Linda King is the author of five poetry Collections including Reality Wayfarers (Shoe Music Press, 2014) and antibodies in the alphabet (BlazeVOX Books, 2019).  Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals ( including Lothlorien) in Canada and internationally. King lives and writes on The Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada.