And The Metaphor Popped Bright In The Midnight Sky

Sucking pure oxygen
Through a small
Plastic tube
Pen and pad in his hand
The wheelchair bound
Voyager pauses
And gazes up
At the night-time stars

His wryly drawn revolver
Pistol of poetry
Carefully aimed
Words
Arcing through
The midnight sky

"Where oh where
Will the moon and stars
Carry me tonight?"

Fire and metaphor
The combustible
Human dilemma
Shooting up
A white hot bolt
Of one man's life story

metaphor, gun, free verse

About Steven Gulvezan

Steven Gulvezan is a disciple, in words, of the great sculptor, Alberto Giacometti. At their best he hopes that his stories and poems are able to cut close enough to the bone of truth to make them worthwhile to read. He�s recently been published in Underground Voices, Gutter Eloquence, and Danse Macabre. Links to some of his writings may be found at: http://www.mysterywriters.org/user/607

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