Zvi A. Sesling,
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Free Verse
Long Finger
Death wears
a black tuxedo
black shirt, black tie, black
socks and shoes
Death wears nail polish on a
long finger that points to
the black unknown
Death has black teeth
a black gaping mouth
drinks black blood of remorse
Death’s black is the black
of long eternity, of wandering
black hallways searching for the right door
Flies
Suddenly
everyone is into flies
drawings of flies, poems about
flies, photographs of flies as if flies
are part Egyptian god or Renoir
subject when in truth they are dirty
little things living off garbage and
animal feces, spreading disease
making pests of themselves at night,
dinner and everywhere, which does
not include black flies or green heads
that bite and suck blood like vampires
Yet, there are those who venerate these
shit eaters for no good reason
B.B. King
You can’t
sing and play guitar
at the same time so when you
sing there is no guitar and
vice versa, but you sure can
make Lucille warble, your
fingers plucking and sliding
at all the right places makes
her sing for you, me, the world
Khukhuri Knife
He does not care
until they offend
his sense of right and wrong
Chivalry makes him obligated
to defend her innocence
The woman sitting next to him
on the train
Forty robbers have descended on
the train, ten of them collecting
Money and jewelry from passengers
when they begin to bother the young lady
This anonymous man pulls his khukhuri knife
and kills two robbers, wounds eight others
Watches them abandon their robbery and flee
one man and one knife
He has saved one life, taken two in exchange
Stone Walking
for M.O.
They are
strewn across the beach
they must be flat, have character
perhaps a design of nature etched
on the surface
Pick and choose the ones to be
taken home, washed, shellacked
some to be written on: poetry or
aphorisms
Rocks (stones) broken, smashed
finely smoothed by the ocean
Pacific stones to pacify and be
given away and enjoyed
Zvi A.
Sesling has published poetry in numerous magazines both
in print and online in the United States, Great Britain, New
Zealand, Canada and Israel. Among the publications are:
Ibbetson St., Midstream, Poetica,The Deronda Review, Voices
Israel, Saranac Review, New Delta Review, Plainsong,
Asphodel, Haz Mat Review, Istanbul Literary Review, The
Chaffin Journal, Ship of Fools, Chiron Review, Poetry
Monthly Interational, Matrix, The Tower, New Vilna Review
and Main Street Rag. He was awarded
Third Place (2004) and First Prize (2007) in the Reuben Rose
International Poetry Competition and was a finalist in the
2009 Cervena Barva Press Chapbook Contest. In 2008 he was
selected to read his poetry at New England/Pen “Discovery”
by Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. He was a featured
reader in the 2010 Jewish Poetry Festival in Brookline, MA.
He is a regular reviewer for the Boston Small Press
and Poetry Scene and he edits the Muddy River
Poetry Review. He is author of King of the
Jungle, (Ibbetson St., 2010), which has been
nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award and a chapbook
Across Stones of Bad Dream (Cervana Barva, 2011)
and a second full length poetry book, Fire Tongue
to be published by Cervena Barva Press.
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