X. AMBITION [Video film of birds feeding with author’s voiceover]
There is
no failure
like
complete success
XI. HONESTY [Handwritten in large letters
diagonally, with the first and last words disappearing off the page]
This
is a real poem
and I
am a real poet
XII. DUPLICATION [A photograph of the identical words written on three different pairs of female buttocks]
Everyone
is a work of art
originality
is another matter
XIII. REMINDER [Written in red ink on a
Venetian carnival mask]
Everything
we see
could just as well
be different
XIV. INVITATION [Written on the first page of a
family photo album]
Here is a book
of emotions
Feel free
to tear them out
and rearrange them
as you think fit
After all,
they are
someone else’s
(from “The God in the Box”, Agàpe Publications, 2003)
Poetry, poem, speculative poetry, science fiction poetry, Australian poetry, British poetry
S.C. Flynn 