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Autumn Nijuin Renku
Selected by Paul MacNeil

 

 

FAINT HEARTS AND KICKS

by Allan Dystrup
and Cindy Zackowitz

written via Internet
26 October - 11 November 2000

 

the calm lake; just the sight-sound of perch fins ................ad bubbles shake a yellowed lily pad ................cz he moves to place the windy moon over the slanting larch ................ad a forgotten tripod at the vista point ................cz the transparency of robin song and leaves against the light ................ad something glittery in the old nest ................cz the X-ray technician asks if she's pregnant the long pause ................cz ear to her abdomen faint hearts and kicks ................ad frosted hole something under the snow is breathing ................cz a dry leaf on the bulrush lifted by the breeze, sinking ................ad sunset- a tanker's wake on the outgoing tide ................cz looking over the rail the change in his eyes! ................ad from across the room at the noisy party that wink ................cz buttoning up beside the bonfire ................ad at the first touch a bat flitters across the pale moon ................ad skipping stones at midnight unable to sleep ................cz a flounder settles into the furrowed sea bed and disappears ................ad a swarm of tadpoles around rubber boots ................cz parked in the mint and the buzz of insects a child's wheelchair ................ad she asks for the story about the colt with wings ................cz

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