Thank you to Editor Mark Antony Rossi for publishing my poem

in the July issue of Ariel Chart.

https://www.arielchart.com/2023/07/trading-up.html

Trading Up

  

Trade prosaic avalanches for daydreams that dance,

steel dolls for a tin man’s heartbeat,

crimson leaks for jumps and jives,

the limits of doom for clocks that teach,

spun numbness for an expressway day.

 

Trade a rocket’s plume for the spell of a golden ticket,

spooky accolades for a dearth of regimes,

the vanity of nosegays for a trustworthy blonde,

lunchtime tipping awry for welcome order,

a lost head case for the renewal of rivers’ humbleness,

a showdown of dominoes for motions hung.

 

The bronze intercom

screams out shattered fortunes.

Auroras fall into laden fields.

New images of entrancing symmetry

within parquet tiles 

can right that wrong.

 

Trade the jungles for a Buddha smile.