Monday, December 05, 2011

New Poetry by Ivan Jenson













Sweeping generalities
(under the table)

Just because
everything
is falling together
doesn’t mean
it isn’t falling
and just because
everything
is coming together
doesn't mean
it can’t come apart
so I am going
to go through with
my obligatory
responsibilities
with white trash
panache
and allow myself
to be midwifed
into mid-life
and then
I will party
crash the pearly
gates
with my
never-said-I-was-a-saint
VIP pass
which I stole
from Paul
to give to
Peter


- Ivan Jenson 2011



Undercurrents

The small chill
that runs up one’s back
and blows through
the stark naked branches
of these trees in the boroughs
where the bread winner lives
and the toaster burns
the bread
his wife planned to
sweeten with jelly
as the kids rush
to the bus like
a school of little
kisses and under
their winter caps
a list of secret wishes
to grow up and out
of the house with
the broken dishes
and those angry exchanges
about Daddy
and the pretty sitter
or mom’s lost dream
of being an archaeologist
where she might have
uncovered the happiness
she has lost
like an Aztec treasure


- Ivan Jenson 2011


Ivan Jenson’s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in Art News, Art in America, and Interview magazine. His art has sold at Christie’s, New York. His poems have appeared in Word Riot, Zygote in my Coffee, Camroc Press Review, Haggard and Halo, Poetry Super Highway, Mad Swirl, Alternative Reel Poets Corner, Underground Voices Magazine, Blazevox, and many other magazines, online and in print. Dead Artist, a novel by Ivan Jenson is available at Amazon.com in paperback and as an eBook for the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, and on Google's eBookStore.




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