David Hubbard
Poems
WORLD WITHOUT GYMNOPÉDIES
Her ache
a run-on sentence
beginning like
Forgive me God,
for ever taking Satie
for granted
His song
a question
circling like,
What if language
cannot teach us
anything?
Play again
her childhood song
coming home like,
Memories buoyed
from sleep’s pitched ink
Or joyful tears
blurring the notes
of sheet music
ARIA, NO. 4
you dream life
into truth
imagine me,
electric
in universe,
parallel
for you, my equal
appearing and new
i hold in my attitude
the favor of nations
i consume dark matter
and roar stars
THE REBELLION OF SISYPHUS
at first
the stones
would not
speak to me
on my last push
they wept
that i would stay
only those
who chain death
can guess
how i reached
the other side
Wayne David Hubbard is the author of Mobius: Meditations on Home, and his poems and essays have appeared in Button Poetry, The Good Men Project, and various literary journals. His latest collection, Death Throes of the Broken Clockwork Universe, is now available. Born and raised in New Jersey, he now lives in Virginia and works in aviation.
Website: waynedavidhubbard.com
Twitter: @WDavidHubbard
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