Saturday, March 31, 2018

Rodak's Writings: An Oldie Redux


A Good Friday/Easter Sandwich


This world is a room
perfect
to run screaming
from:
how do we
not?
How do we
abide,
straining to hide
the walls
under pictures
of pictures
of pictures of pictures,
venturing out
only to buy
furniture and frames:
sequentially cadenced,
staring through the sun
always
at dusty angles:
twitching under the moon,
gravid as windfall fruit,
in dreams
of an uncornered being
coiled ‘round
some polar secret
and vertical center:
yet chewing,
chewing and reflexively chewing:
How?

Saturday, April 11, 2009




Friday, March 30, 2018

Rodak's Writings: Good Friday - 3.30.18



Good Friday -- 3.30.18


Slouched below the gaslight,

we cast cynical shadows,

look down to question our nervous feet.

But the road is lost in dark irrelevance.

All that lies behind is time-altered or forgotten.

We are deaf to the call of any distant destination.

The word “home” no longer possesses meaning.

Some believe our God may be imprisoned there,

locked in an upstairs room

to which no survivor’s pocket holds the key.