Austin Alexis


Misinformation

is occasionally the truth
you refuse to believe.
It displays fangs;
you avert your eyes.
Or is it
a simple lie
ruled by ignorance,
fueled by rebellion?

Fabrications are simply
notions among many ideas,
defying deniers,
all of the many concepts
having faith
they are the one;
they are true.



All Over

You start your workweek, and
before you know it,
it’s Monday
again.
You wonder how the days
erase traces of themselves.
They are ski tracks you create 
just moments before
the lavish coating of a blizzard.
Time deficiency has become
a ghost you live with.
No scientific explaining
offers sufficient explanation.
Will all your months
unspool like this?
Nothing is spookier, more cagy,
than your life.

Austin Alexis is the author of Privacy Issues (Broadside Lotus Press) and two chapbooks from Poets Wear Prada Press. His work has appeared in Shot Glass Journal, Home Planet News, Barrow Street, Poetica Review (UK) and elsewhere. He received a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

 
 

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