Three Cigarette Poems
Denise Bonetti
10.
look:
my hand is drawing a drawing
around us:
a fugue:
an undulating
flight:
9.
the stream flows in sea
the smoke rises in cloud
the plant withers in dust
19.
make
a slow pile
of worry
flutter
away in white
ashes
now flickering
particle, distant
scintilla
no gift
so swift as
this quick undoing
if true
can you see it?
the terrible sequin
or sickening sediment
now quivering noise
+
i picture a stalactite
as a time-keeping device
for no one to see
the drop that sculpts it
also in my dry mouth;
in need of quick undoing
Denise Bonetti reads/writes in Glasgow, UK. She holds an English Literature MA from the University of Glasgow and is the Editor-in-Chief of the post-internet poetry publication SPAM zine. Her current manias are Tom McCarthy’s International Necronautical Society and object-oriented ontology.
