Beastgardens
By Lucy Ives
first garden
Beastgarden.
second garden
Bees go mad on late summer evenings, should
People stray from their jobs towards water
Beastgarden.
third garden
Who makes the rented red boat's
Oars turn
Who is the younger one always
Turning up
Who professes to be better because
He is just looking
Who says he is worse off as
He cannot look
Beastgarden.
fourth garden
The unicycle girl, thin
Like one with a sexual problem,
Goes through
The Schlosspark. This follows:
Father rolling his eyes
Beastgarden.
fifth garden
The man from Manchester
Has my breast in his hand
These are funny
They don't do anything do they
Being burnt by a fire I say
Beastgarden.
sixth garden
Similarly, if only
You grasped some
Titanic misery or a
Love like an old man's
Beastgarden.
seventh garden
Where were we
A ballroom competition goes on
A yellow satin bikini
A fuchsia floor-length are
Dancing; an audience is
Drinking, clapping 1 2 3 1 2 3
Beastgarden.
Lucy Ives, "Beastgardens" from Orange Roses. Copyright © 2013 by Lucy Ives. Reprinted by permission of Ahsahta Press.
Source:
Orange Roses
(Ahsahta Press, 2013)
