How to Survive by Angela Janda
Keep your friends close and your silence closer.
Head like a white sheet
or a sailcloth, hung garments
blown sideways in a bluesky wind.
Live in pictures and pictures only.
A bowl of blueberries, a standing pear,
birds
as a symbol for weightlessness.
The anemone
as a symbol for grief.
A swan-drawn chariot as a symbol for:
your secret is your power.
The object of your search is within.
Go and look for it;
leave no notes.
A table
bare where the note should be
but for
an empty dish and the sheen of sun.
Where the fork should be, a spoon.
No one to ask, or to answer.
- Angela Janda
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