what makes outside tedious,
how desperation becomes a rope ends it.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: language, Peter Pereira, word play
what makes outside tedious,
how desperation becomes a rope ends it.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: language, Peter Pereira, word play
Daddy laughed and said Smart Snake
and Mrs Kelly with us scowled.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: alternate versions, Elizabeth, history, Michael Ondaatje, unsettling
And these are my vices:
impatience, bad temper, wine,
the more than occasional cigarette…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Cecilia Woloch, confession, dark humor, defiance, gender, imagery, poetry