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Ward Abel, who lives in rural Georgia, USA, is a life long poet,
composer of music and spoken-word performer. He has been
published worldwide in many poetry journals, including White
Pelican Review, The Pedestal, Versal, Juked, Angelface, OpenWide
, Ink Pot, Texas Poetry Journal, Kritya , Blue Print Review,
others, and presently performs and records with his band Abel,
Rawls and Hayes (www.arhband.com) . Abel’s chapbook, Peach Box
and Verge, has been published by Little Poem Press. Twenty of
his poems are featured, along with an interview, in a recent
print issue of erbacce (UK). His new full book of poems,
Jonesing For Byzantium, has just been published at UK Authors
Press (London). Website:
www.universecanoe.com
Serenity and Ablude
Tired of the blunt edge of tedium. It shows
on my face, having walked into another door
that reveals yet another room. There is no rest.
Contrast that steams all around me shows
an elusive equilibrium. The natural state of all
matter is conflict; pulling, pushing, burning, cooling.
Everyone knows it’s true. And I saw her
standing at the window. It has gotten to her, too.
I remember though telling myself for years
how peace is only peace, and not touch. So
the steam is a red herring.
Harbor, Shoreless
He is quiet, his way
barely exceeds sustenance. The chapel
on Tuesday morning where no one prays
receives his mind from across town,
sunlight streams in through depictions,
coloring the room. Empty. Walled-off
from several billion voices, a small
compartment.
The reach of thought is limitless,
instantaneous. He thinks about this place.
He is there.
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