a cluesless Sister Leo

from The Fatman In The Mirror (c) 1997 - Pygmy Forest Press (Leonard Cirino, editor) comes todays poem .... one i wrote after reading Paul Zimmer ... he is a wonderful poet, well worth your time in discovering. This and next update will be from published books. Then, as i mentioned in an earlier post, i will go into some poems published only in small press magazines, before getting back to unsolicitied and unpublished stuff again .... anyway - such is the plan ....



EVEN SISTER LEO HAD NO IDEA

even Sister Leo had no idea how dismal
her dreams of salvation appeared
to the sinners of the world -
we who had come to know tobacco & sex.

she danced, rather poorly, on thin clouds
with angels that appeared to be moths,
rosary in her stubby fingers,
as if a rip chord.

we laughed at her sincerity, almost envious, as we danced in the haze
of warm kisses
& the ambiguous promise of night.