Laundry Boy’s Change: A Poem

Poetry / By / / 1 minute of reading

The priest stepped up to the alter of clichés
                             the
alter of bad poetry
Speaking with words that can collect African artifacts
Boxes of ideas hanging on the walls
A snake on the staircase
And a man at a table
                     reading
a book with his eyes closed
The child donated his change to chance
Bending over
Laughing profusely into the echoing well of truth

About The Author

Julian Haladyn -- carnevalesqu@sympatico.ca -- lives in London, Ontario, Canada. Julian has had poems and short stories appear in elimae, ´a·pos·tro·phe, LiNQ, and a collection titled Grubstreet 2001-2002: Standing Room Only (Huron Literary Society, 2002). Julian has also published collaborative critical articles and reviews with Miriam Jordan in Parachute, C Magazine, On Site Review, and an essay in an upcoming collection titled Ready Made: Film Remakes in Postmodern Times (Costa and Nolan, 2005).
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