Paradox
Intelligence focused:
an obsessive inquiry
into metaphysics,
circumoral muscles
complex in climaxes,
waiting for a star
on planet earth.
Psychotic breakdown:
staring at the air
festooned in red,
a Kremlin funeral,
huge hypertrophic
slaughterhouse
boring you mindless.
Postmodern liaisons:
picked up on the cusp,
a couple of plateaus
obscure and unknown,
beautiful to see,
moving with nonchalance
in a million little ways.
An abstract pastel:
intractable unhappiness
cast at obtuse angles,
himself a grotesque
radical compression,
a transcendent
practitioner of an art.
Sally Long is a postgraduate student of creative writing at the University of East London and has had poems published in print and online magazines in the UK and US including Agenda, Haiku Journal, London Grip, Prole and Snakeskin. When not writing poetry she works as a teacher.