An Announcement
Here I am
Redundant, an Andy Warhol poster
A few smears of new thought for variety
Here I am
Gripping an iPod
Pressing buttons
Sitting on a sofa
Cushion sliding out from under me
As I replay taped sex
Will they ever come?
Will they?
I look out the patio door
Notice the lit square of a neighbor’s window
Hear the passion but not the logic of argument
Yellow incandescent light
Breaks the darkness
Overpowers the whisper
Of blanching moonlight
Which I would have noticed
If Eden hadn’t been a fool’s paradise
Here I am
As religious, as romantic
As the belief in fiction allows
Truth is a drip
Of Jackson Pollack paint
The looping
Crisscrossing
Here I am
I say again and again
Insatiable
For a really good plot
With everything summed up in the end
Neatly
Like in a frame
Dan Cuddy is currently an editor of the Loch Raven Review and in the past has been a contributing editor with the Maryland Poetry Review, and with Lite: Baltimore’s Literary Newspaper. He has been published in many small magazines over the years, e.g. NEBO, Antioch Review, Connecticut River Review and online at Praxilla, The Potomac, and L‘Allure des Mots. His book of poems “Handprint On The Window” was published by Three Conditions Press