The Shine Journal

Anguished Vision

by

Gary  Beck

 
 I will not be a fading man
 of tired words, yearning lost places.
 I’ve cultivated city streets
 and paved the desolate forests,
 the passing visions of strangers,
 the wandering cries that deny rest,
 sing sleepless nights of twisted hopes,
 that plague will spare our greedy land,
 as it’s carried by fur creatures
 rushing to be coats for seniors,
 their shabby banner of protest
 the sad flush of expectations,
 passing the days like wringing hands
 fluting each other in despair,
 blind to the moment of conquest
 that squanders dawn’s deliverance.

Motivation: I wanted to explore disturbing images of our time.

BIO: Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His chapbook 'Remembrance' was published by Origami Condom Press and 'Conquest of Somalia' was published by Cervena Barva Press. A collection of his poetry'Days of Destruction' has been published in 2009 by Skive Press. Another collection 'Expectations' is being published by Rogue Scholars Press. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He lives in New York City, where he's busy writing. His poetry and short stories have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines.