It's Still Life

Drinking Coffee as the Big Tent Goes Up

I’m in vertigo — falling,
Meditating on bubbles,
A swallow of embossed night.
Foam, right across
An expanse, pretty

As silk cheer and wakefulness.
Calliopes and coffee,
Hold that thought.

written for Poetic Bloomings, Poetry Form: Boketto, which consists of two stanzas, One of five lines (30 syllables – 7,7,7,4,5) and a three line (17 syllables – two seven syllable lines and a three syllable line which becomes a refrain if a string of Boketto are written). It expresses a single moment in time. A variation of the Boketto makes use of two (three) ancient Japanese forms, the Tanka and the Haiku (Senryu). The moment of which you write will determine the choice. (Haiku – nature; Senryu – everything else).