Roger Singer writes “I began writing poetry when I was in the military many years ago, for relaxation and to express my thoughts in an abstract form. I enjoy the challenge poetry offers, unlike the articles I have written for my profession, which are straight forward. Poetry allows the writer to step to the side from general thoughts, thus creating a miniature story which in and of itself can bifurcate into other levels of literary form”.
Fall 2011
Table of Contents - Vol. VII, No. 3
Poetry Fiction Translations Reviews
Roger Singer
Breathing into a magnolia sweet evening
a cello weeps from an apartment;
late persistent summer clouds
flatten under an orange-blue horizon.
The air divides as the sound walks over
tired curtains and past yellow chipped paint,
descending to an alley absent of life,
canvassing
garbage cans and locked back doors.
A hallway fills with music like an incoming
full moon tide,
wetting cracked tiles and stained walls.
For a moment the city releases from loss
as the strings from the cello
bridge us to a place of
calm waters.
© Roger Singer
