Ambiance

Wallpaper pocked with garish roses, gnawed imperceptible

by the objects they're tasked to enclose.

Nicotine yellow dint wastes away upon them with unsightly

permutations.

An artificial fruit basket blurbs the same comment of

unmoving, undying lifelikeness.

The couch indents itself with fled bodies, the windowsill

allows odd couplings of half-dead nepenthes.

The window freefalls the sky's latest canyon, varying

tonalities of light lacerate its transparency.

Birds push in a compass fails sort of way just outside...their

colors and sizes are as lights knocked out of some giant mind.

Back inside--the den serializes the spines of shelved books,

and the strident terror of family/friend photographs pull out

their best-kept faces...tirelessly, while peppered with dust

motes.

An undersized, oversized coffee table resurfaces when a foot

knocks into it, knocking over a time frame given to a shattered

vase, flowerless, a wisp of water inside it.

The turned off plasma television positioned with an idiot's

care...stares like a mini darkened billboard. 

Konstantinos Mark

Reviews

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. brilliantly vivid ...
. it seems like there's some amount of wealth but no peace whatsoever ...