Poems - JP Melville

Sept 15, 2018 JP   End Another Day   Now it is almost time to start another day Which means it must be getting                 Close to when I’ll fall asleep Some sleeps and mornings arrive in a blink                 Other sleeps are fitful                                 And it takes forever to get to the new day Sometimes it’s because I am worried about something And I have to tell myself what a waste of time that is Worrying about something in the darkness                 When even the light won’t come if you beg it to Sometimes it takes forever because   ...

Oh God I Love My Children time eternal jp melville When the doorbell sounds and my driver has arrived I kiss the children goodbye… and knowing I will be back to them the sun breaks through the clouds pours light into the apartment and I see over the city this strange city Tbilisi that all will be alright that all is alright with this world. Oh God, I love my children.

Amniotic Darkness 2019 and old Imishli   jp Was it war once here? Am I that war? Drops splatter in the dust, bring softness to the evening. Thick air becomes light, even as the sun drops below the horizon. I sit on a veranda. I have showered. Smoking a cigarette, watch mud form, watch a chicken huddle under a plank of wood. We hide from the rain. We watch leaves of quince trees shiver with pleasure. Landlady brings me a meal of cheese: sliced cucumber, sliced bell peppers, bread, stuffed tomatoes. stuffed eggplant. stewed lamb… potato and yoghurt and tea. I snuff my cigarette. I enter the house to eat. I sit where landlady has placed the meal for me. At the head long table. Attended by none but me. Eat like a king in an empty castle. Absurd, this coming to live in another country. Absurd, this believing that one is welcome. I am not sold in. To be polite, I devour all that is on my plate as though watched f...