Artwork © Richard Spisak

 

Lettres, Numbers, Hieroglyphs (2)

Sometimes finds you drifting sifting
Selecting among the varied lettres lifting
Swimming joyous, buoyant like some mythic lifting sylph.
As my mind, confused unsettled, sifts amongst them,
like some sharpest pointed nettled choice disheveled.

Some so sweet to taste, others left behind, provoked examined,
yet like precious spices in careful admixture, so carefully refined.

Reaching for some cleaful careful lasting meaning.
Other set aside, ill-used, unfeeling.
Delicately handled, fondled
Caressed with silken fingers,
like some long lost infant swaddled.

Some disgraced discarded lost
Others hard-won at tremendous e’en monumental cost.
Some were found, and careful cast
as crucial part of the precious edifice and artiface
so precisely nicely favored.
Later torn haphazard from the bridge,
no longer, the honored choice no longer savored.

Some plucked and clutched, from ancient dustbins of meaning,
now, fraught with awful power,
delicious tinted delicately like portentious baroque
Romanesque Ceilngs.

Yet, in the end, does the edifice so tremulous constructed
serve to cross the chasm, solve the riddle, enhance the tax deduction,
dot the jay. Exactly precisely what secret message did that coded loaded
          message
that arrived this morning relay?

All to spin the pretty petal in the sun
And in the final measure twas,
mere tinsel sequined or much esteemed
and August treasure so hard won.
And Dawn.

 

Richard Spisak began his artistic career as a light artist in the Lumonics Studios of Mel Tanner, a legendary Light Artist. After serving under Jack Horkheimer as a planetarium operator at the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, he left to begin traveling with Lumist Kenvin Lyman, whose show Dazzleland Studios traveled across America. Richard later worked as a Laserist with LASERIUM and Laser Productions, served as a technical producer for the festival company PACE Concerts, and later as operations Manager and Senior Producer at WWHP and WTCN-TV in Stuart Florida.

Richard writes for Theatre, TV, radio, and the web. He published two short story collections, Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and Between the Silences. Followed by his poetry collection 7370 Allen Drive and the recently released STONE POETRY. Richard also produces “POETS of the East,” a televised webcast featuring poets from across the globe.