Similarities Between Two Strangers
Decorating calamity her
Hump of look
Decors like red gumdrops
Without the opening sap
Of mixed gingerales and over
Pearled wedding cakes, the closing prayer on a
Naked Sunday evening, the raw center peels
Back an inch, like a skin,
Flap-hat, my mother shifts
Her working image, her
Dead, flat weight in Greco-Roman pearls.
Meanwhile
On some train
East
Her new daughter, counter-clockwise
Wears cutoffs and is appalled
By the silver screened anchor woman's
Taste in her yellow shirtsleeves
Pulled up and wearing
No da Vinci, no furs
Her bank of appraisal
Hovers a new antique. A
Stunted magnolia
Glitters in anonymity
To a life
Suffocating its own
Small breath of the night flower.
Leonardo's Aria
Suddenly,
The shock chords of air
Brittle the disease illustrating
Illustrious bridals in
New mademoiselle paintings.
Their sullen faced nudes
Open mouths that cry
A harsh, malignant
Goblet of some stunted talk.
Holy opus
Dined on your side of smiles
Hot little high-rise.
Smokes small in your iron pipe.
Meanwhile the lady Lazarus
Shrills a Madonna at two laterals.
A smile erupting the center of open pith
On a nude cheek, the indented
Hot talk of Plato.
Tyurina Allen has been published in zines such as Stirring, PoetrySuperHighway, Red River Review, and many others from all over the web. She is currently attending her senior year in high school and is hoping to become employed soon.