Ouroboros is a potent chapbook that touches upon the duality of light and dark. The everyday notions of life—people, love, memory, beliefs— push the boundaries between positive and negative duality.
"European Pears"
Staring out
an Astoria
apartment window
I see
smokestacks
from your city-
façade clouds.
They form
into your face
faking me
fooling me,
feelings once
chained and sunk
at sea
now rusty,
scraping my flakey
fair skin
cutting me.
I never got
that tetanus shot
friends screamed
I should get,
so now your metal
lives in my blood
rotting me
from the inside out
like those European pears
firm strong
golden sweet
just take a bite –
juice drooling into
bitter brown slush.