Alex Duensing
It’s perfectly acceptable to be free in an unfree country
I sometimes think
of you driving away
into distance
across miles
of unfamiliar roadway
and uncanny terrain
recalling fondly
how your eyes dart
as you systematize
remainder
caetera abstract memorem:
and so forth the abstract
heedfulness:
minding the business
of unparticular waves
late October day
and its leavings—
blowing into parking lots
next town over
I cannot face
nor flee from it
otherwise:
the sensual horrors
of departure
About the author:
Alex Duensing. Graduate of William Paterson and Columbia? Yes. Ran for St. Petersburg, FL City Council? Yes. Won? No. Stopped Mayan Apocalypse on rooftop with performance art? Yup. Strange but nice fellow? Clearly. Able to create mechanical engines that run completely on the energy a person creates while appreciating a painting? On occasion.