Images Of The Past Poem by RIC BASTASA

Image 1

A big white horse
Galloping
All four feet hanging in mid-air

On the ground below it
A yellow butterfly

A broken wing.


Image ii

A dirty boy chases a dirty pig
His dirty father chases both
While mother hides her face
Behind a black umbrella.


Image iii

I see on the ceiling a little spider, a lizard
And a white moth
The faded yellow fluorescent bulb blinks
I blink too

The little spider is gone and the moth flew away.


Image iv

A girl on a swing swinging high on air
Her left slipper left in space
Rightly so
Captured still in the middle of air

The two of us look we did not move
Like a Flemish painting