KENNETH ALEWINE // Illegible Figures

Illegible Figures 

The mosaic floor 
of a deep pool
ripples like trance optics
in the sunlight after a storm.
The arrhythmias 
of a light rainfall
accompaniment
for clear water 
beading on the radials of 
a spider web, new silk
imported from a dream
a thousand miles long.

Fresh-cut blades of grass
become watercraft 
in the draining yard,
cedar shrubs shaking 
in the wind
like wet dogs, game pieces 
displaced on a nearby 
rickety table. 

Tall rain flower,
swinging like the pendulum 
of a metronome,
remains stubbornly 
out of focus.

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Kenneth Alewine is a doctoral student at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch. His interests include music and voice hearing, art and medicine, illness narratives, and computer music. His poems have appeared in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Poetry Quarterly, UCity Review, Psychic Meatloaf and elsewhere.