Chris G. Vaillancourt, CA

 

 

Free Verse   Circle In The Sand   You drew a circle in the sand, daring me to enter into it. I understand the delusions pain can bring. But I do not understand the rambling utterances of a thousand blinking heads bobbing up and down in patterns of moronic agreement. You drew a circle in the sand, demanding I try and erase it. I submit to you that every drop of glass will only slice the feet. You enjoy this masquerade and so in the shade you draw hunger etched in daggers of revival. In a distant wall a drum is beating. Creeping lines of corporate slime entrusting the battle of life to the dollar signs you have flung from your pocket. You draw a circle in the sand, forcing me to step inside it. Once I have, you step out. I am the twisted eye standing like a lone rock inside a circle in the sand     About Chris G. Vaillancourt, CA   Chris G. Vaillancourt, CA: Over 200 of my poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals in the U.S. and Canada, in Japan and Australia, and the U.K, including: Real Angry Poets, Quills, Unfeigned Coffee Fiend, Detour Memphis, Why Vandalism?!, Plum Ruby Review, Vox Poetica, Outcry, The Hudson Review, Whisper, Poetry Space, Dangling Verbs, Writers Forum, Poesie, Cafe Del Soul, South Jersey Underground-Issue 6, Protest Poems, Poetry Stop, P&W, elffin&elffa, and many others. I have had a series of chapbooks published in the 1980's by 4 Winds Press, such titles as "Doors and Windows", "Dancing in the Eighties" and "Slow Burn". I have had four poetry books published, "Teardrop of Coloured Soul" "I Walk Naked into a Cloud", "the Rushing Stream of Desires", and "A Yellow Sunshine Night". Chris G. Vaillancourt is a Canadian poet. He resides in Windsor, Ontario. This is Chris G. Vaillancourt's first appearance in Sketchbook.