from Absolute Clarity to Relative Clarity, and Back Again

based on Polarities by Heinrich Wölfflin

by Paul Tristram / August 23rd, 2020

She sidestroked, often,
around the flowers
of cigarette burns…
saving vertical slashes
for a very different,
substantial… Release.

Clown-smudging
blood-red lipstick,
across an OCD face
… was a
WARNING SIGN
ignored,
consciously,
no matter the ‘Lies’
and ‘Excuses’
later uttered, insincerely.

A six-sided box,
lowered
into 6ft deep hole,
after Executing,
upon sixth Attempt,
she finally Succeeded
… accepting
Story’s End as… Escape.

Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer who deals in the Lowlife, Outsider, and Outlaw genres.  He wrote his first poem as a teenager following his release from the (Infamous) Borstal ‘HMP Portland’, and he has been creating Literary Terrorism ever since.  His novel ‘Crazy Like Emotion’ is available to purchase right here . Also his collection of shorter fiction Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves' is available to purchase at https://bookgoodies.com/a/B0DFMTSR4F Both books are published by Close To The Bone Publishing. Read other articles by Paul, or visit Paul's website.

This article was posted on Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 at 8:03am and is filed under Poetry.