PHANTOM SWAY

    • National Poetry Month is Upon Us

    …so we at Phantom Sway have decided to share some of our poems with you.

    Our first selection comes from author K.J. Adan (yours truly). My novel The Method barely conceals some personal observations of the Harvey Weinstein side of Hollywood; my poetry is sort of “vague booking” or sub posting my feelings about everything else.

    Isn’t all poetry laden with subtext?

    Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this puppy, originally posted here:

    Upon the Board

    Expectation in suspension

    This is the hovering, the inhalation

    The sips of certainty drowned by torrents of wonder

    How impervious now to failure we think we are

    Surely this will be executed with no splash

    A pike, a double twist, and abundant prayer

    Fervent at every breath of every waking moment

    And catching in the apnea of evening during precious minutes of sleep

    A longing moan for More of the Lord Our God

    Fill the spaces scourged of joy

    Smooth the scars jagged and wary

    Grant us peace in our day and

    In thy mercy keep us free from sin

    Except the mild ones we crave

    Let’s have a few of those from time to time to laugh about and smile

    And only tell those few whose eyes will twinkle

    While You wonder if we ever read Paul’s letters and You know full well we did and that we believe so earnestly in salvation that we think it’s probably okay

    And what is sin anyway and

    Isn’t everything kind of a sin anyhow and

    It was like that when I got here

    And thank You for Your love or

    Surely there’s a place for me in hell right next to Henry Miller & my

    Punishment is having to listen to him recite his own

    Awful books

    For eternity

    Kellie Jane Adan
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