Spindle Point
His first thought
and perhaps the most provoking
as he gazed from the dock,
was the continual, rhythmic
oscillation of the lake beneath him,
how, aside from its beauty, its tranquility,
it possessed an undercurrent,
a deception unnoticed,
damaging its edges over and again
upon the rough and rotting posts,
a ruse reminiscent of the way
anticipated love treads upon
the shore of the initial interaction
or the manner in which the tongue reacts
once the eyes have deceived,
yielding a sense of disappointment,
perhaps falseness,
the desired result entwined
with a dose of unexpected reality,
the lake, its view, its potential embrace
not the garden of docile promise,
but a cold, indifferent body of drift
inadvertently misunderstood
by merely being present.
- © Michael Keshigian 2023
Michael Keshigian was recently published in the Comstock Review, Smoky Quartz Anthology, California Quarterly, and Muddy River Review. His latest collections, What To Do With Intangibles, Into The Light, Dark Edges, are available through Amazon. He has been nominated 7 times for a Pushcart Prize and 3 times for Best Of The Net.
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