J Michael Wahlgren

(After Randall Mann)

Disco

is nothing more than a slip,

a fertile lip

like a rhododendron bud in spring.

 

I am a pawn.

If I see you in the half-dark

half sputtered tea-cup,

 

spinning into infinity,

will I lift you up?

Will you need lifting?

 

Or a tip, perhaps?

I possess all these faces-

one is a splinter, the other wood.

 

I know I should dance, but

what the heck, we are on separate sides

of the hall. I know

 

all is well in the corner where

the secret to all this hubbub

is dangling from a girl's ear.

 

Author Bio
J Michael Wahlgren is the author of one chapbook Chariots of Flame (Maverick Duck Press, 2007) & a forthcoming full-length from BeWrite Books. He has been published/will be published in Snow Monkey, Beauty/Truth, Perspectives Magazine, iddie, admit2, press 1, Dark Sky Magazine & elimae. He resides in Boston, Ma where he edits & web designs Octaves Magazine.