EXPERIMENTAL
POETRY: FREE-VERSE HAIBUN
"signs"
Toggling Optics
Karina Klesko
Looking out the big picture
window,
I watch car after car
pass by.
A blue Chevy appears
to disappear
i
n
t
o
the sky ahead.
It reminds me of grandfather's.
He always buys a new
car
every two years to the day—same
color—always
the same
point
of
v
i
e
--when
3D
becomes
2D.
An oval marble-top table
mirrored
in the rec-tangled glass frame
a barn and silo cross the road
and a stiffel lamp-stands next to the hay-baler.
Book of Heures
gold leaf penned-in
within
a ticking from somewhere—the blare of a horn
the cows come running.
a quick grin for the camera's eye, please!
I move to the back of the illusion
where the window framed is smaller
a hidden driveway sign
in dotted
swiss,
or is that snow?
obscuring
fields
of
v
i
s
ion
angles left open
in each corner of my home
glaucoma
*The Rohen Master
by Millard
Meiss, 1973, New York:
Braziller. ISBN#0807606901
