Two poems
Taylor Hagood
Unweighty
And again
I want
circus peanuts,
their soft orange
clowning
out the painful
real husks.
Ogive Poem
The pointed arch doorway
threatens an invitation.
Nosferatu’s shadow
cannot even be seen.
But Satie plays
so twilight can brood.
The deaths of the living
roll in the eyes of tomorrow.
Here drama lies languid
as lilac pools in winter.
Unweighty
And again
I want
circus peanuts,
their soft orange
clowning
out the painful
real husks.
Ogive Poem
The pointed arch doorway
threatens an invitation.
Nosferatu’s shadow
cannot even be seen.
But Satie plays
so twilight can brood.
The deaths of the living
roll in the eyes of tomorrow.
Here drama lies languid
as lilac pools in winter.
Taylor Hagood is a writer, speaker, and educator based in south Florida. Publications include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and literary criticism in such journals as California Quarterly, Cold Mountain Review, Louisiana Literature, and The Rumpus, as well as the biography/true crime Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend.