Levi Wagenmaker
staring
hard to tell
one bit of heaven from another
starlings on a roof
across the street
dead ringers likewise
black silhouettes against the grey
walking not flying
military guards in dark uniforms
stiffly stepping first approaching
turning then with mirrored timed precision
steps and turns again and again
grey seeps in
hard to tell
one bit of hell
from another
Bio
Levi Wagenmaker (1944 - ) is a retired journalist, living in the Netherlands for most of the year, and in France for some of it, with three bitches, two of whom are dogs. Enamoured life-long with language (and languages), for reasons immaterial to the act he writes poetry in English only, even if he could most likely manage it in a few other tongues. His poems have been published on line more than in print, and Google will tell the curious what, where, and when.