Two Poems
By Michael D. Amitin
The Exquisite Relief of Alphonse
february, lemmings scurry up powder mountain
snort blue air
dip fine wine firelight boogie
very-white shapely sloped alps
ski vacation it's called here
foggy town paris
the poor stick around, stocking
grocery store shelves, sweeping rue de funk
afterhour sip the slippery slopes of alley cheap booze
keep your powder dry
store king hollers
over zoom gloom
to the working crew
alphonse takes a horse-size piss
scratches his
daily double, lady luck
shines him a quarter moon
over three cent town -
takes another shot and says
fuck the alps
Mata Hari Swirling Hare Krishna's
mata hari swirling hare krishnas in
geisha night square pools
my rust broken eyes glued
to any resurrection
sunset flesh inflections
red jazz night
archbishop resets his mind over
st emilion wine
cars rush by
saintly patience
where are you tonight
Poet and musician Michael D. Amitin travelled the American West from California- east through the smoky burgs and train depot diners of Western Colorado, crisscrossing the highways of America- before moving to Paris in 2009.
Recently named International Beat Poet Laureate 2020-2021 by the National Beat Poetry Foundation, Amitin’s poems have been published in Poetry Pacific, California Quarterly, Love Love, AbstractMagazineTV, The Dreaming Machine, Litterateur RW and others, and can be seen on social media sites bearing his name.
Posted on March 15th