My Designs
I am abraded by a faux light
for my immediate set of tasks –
I sit at my cluttered desk
before that eye-bleach of pixels
framed on a twistable mount –
that rarely wrestled wrist –
I slump before it – weighted by to-dos –
by deadlines for stage designs –
my fanciful constructs
in rented spaces for the business
of presentations – for buffed egos
and unfurled peacock feathers –
for fat chanticleers in sharp suits
and for ruffled hens in tottered heels
to preen at brand-gilded lecterns –
those podiums were once brushed –
leafed in beaten gold for unseen gods –
but I enwomb false altars in hewn MDF –
Set to stand – braced – for only one day
before a room of corporate disciples
who pray for the coming of closing remarks