Vignettes

By Jeff Vaughn

Selected word sketches circa 2015 - very short personal poems

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329125063

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Vignettes

Vignettes

Jeff Vaughn

Copyright © 2015 Jeff Vaughn

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-329-12506-3

Mass Transit

There was the quiet of an afternoon

away from the desert sun

napping in the hum of a bedroom fan

lazily flipping bottoms of sheer curtains.

There were the incessant neighbors arguing

the salient aspects of banality and boredom

in their dusty one bedroomed adobes

their very voices twittering away

like birds in the palo verde tree out back.

I listened to the simplicity of life silence

as I thought you slept, which you did,

but even while asleep you still

couldn’t help but being yourself

A city bus paused on a nearby corner

waiting to turn and did ever so quietly,

apologizing for being out on such a day.

Two women dining in a penthouse restaurant

Clare and Theo, lost in the incongruous sounds

of everything around them even themselves,

but the wine is good, the food expensive.

Clare had always been unfaithful even tonight

wearing her poorly combed wig, gaudy eyelashes.

She never let Theo in because Theo was plain

because Clare could spend money carelessly

sleep with whomever she liked, uncontested.

Theo helplessly rubbed her wine glass rim,

the flaring lights of the city below,

Clare's fetish for formal conversation,

the waiter