New Poetry by Michael Keshigian

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.