Poetry

In the Moment

Cars slowing on all major highways,
statewide, store help immobile,
breath sucked out of a million living-rooms.
Ticking away, Earth’s last seconds
(eight now, seven, six . . . ).
The end-zone up ahead
behind the foreign invaders,
Aaron Rodgers feints left, rolls right, to pass.

Parisian Letdown

Royal and rich, her French Twist.
Could you assist
in, say, pulling these pins,
she grins,
in letting inhibitions go,
just so . . .
you know?
Down her neck into his hands
come waves and tresses, coquette strands.
Could you assist? she grins, just so.

Richard Swanson, from Madison, is the author of Men in the Nude in Socks, winner of the Posner Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for 2006, Not Quite Eden (2010), and a chapbook of satirical poems about popular culture: Paparazzi Moments (2013). Contact Swanson at [email protected].