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Three Poems - Mark Scott Bagula
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Racehorses
The swish of hips,
my arm low and tight-
trying to control motion
like a seatbelt
when gravity has made
its demands on inertia.
I stroke your hair,
scratch behind your ears.
I try to open your mind
with its firm grasp of morbid
reality, and after a few times
of doing it, and taliking about
doing it, we both run like
a racehorse fully open.
1998. Mark Scott Bagula
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Windy Moments
The Moment:
The last time we decided
we would not sleep
because living was just far enough
from monotony, we had recently
forgotten our
shrunken version
perfectly proportioned
coffin to walk in.
The Lost Moment:
Slipped through the fingers
like rotten fruit squeezed too tight:
your sun-blond hair right at that point
where it autumns fast into brown.
The Last Moment:
Anyway, then was well before
we watched the emotion
escape in thin streams
from our drafty bodies.
1998. Mark Scott Bagula
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Visions of the Free
She hopes to catch them in the lie
of twilight calling itself morning-
beginning to bleed into the sky she's walking on.
She steps around that pool of blood [the sun], then dives
right in. She swims to the cracked eggshell edge,
looks down upon all the places and people she has left-
the fragments of heaven scattered restlessly that kept her
from wholeness.
1998. Mark Scott Bagula
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I write poetry and articles. Recently, these publications have accepted
my work for publication: Art Times, Ilya's Honey, Riverrun, Midwest
Poetry Review, ZuZu's Petals, Poetry Motel, Phoenix, CER*BER*US, La
Pierna Tierna, The Fractal Translight Newletter, Poet's Edge, Once Upon
A World, Plainsongs, Barbaric Yawp, Eidetic Annals, Flipside, The Sunday
Suitor, University of San Diego Law Review, Micropress Midlands Poetry,
The Writer's Gazette, and Poetalk.
I have a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California at San
Diego (UCSD) and a Juris Doctorate from University of San Diego. I have
traveled to 23 countries, been a student in Hong Kong, been a licensed
stockbroker, and spent a year in Taiwan consulting and learning
Chinese. I am now a lawyer in California. On occasion, since becoming
a lawyer, I have taught Legal English to summer students at UCSD.
Notice © 1998 IP and the author
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