Ponderable polemics, poetic

WordPress site of poet Mark Lucker

the past

  • Done

    The past can hinder it can hurt and taint today and your tomorrows the past can’t paint your life in colors that you can feel but that others see as a much different shade the past can be the cross you bear the hat you wear a welcome companion or unwelcome intruder the past lurks, Read more

  • Dalliance appliance

    Open the door and the light comes on but only when you open the door Illuminated are the remnants of the recent past (some not so recent) the leftover bits and pieces, scraps and tasty morsels with which you can construct a spontaneous, piecemeal feast, a light lunch, or default snack fresh and climate controlled Read more

  • Jaywalker

    She crosses my mind from time to time in a downtown crosswalk, distracted, late-for-a-lunch-date manner sometimes she is more casual, unaware, letting the dog out, grabbing the Sunday paper off the sidewalk before brunch She crosses my mind from time to time weaving through downtown like a drunken sailor in 3 inch pumps with a Read more