Surrealist Spy Movie  


                                                I know that Andre

                                                Dropped his codebook in the brook—

                                                The cipher key, too.

                                                I don’t know who lurked downstream,

                                                Only that he wasn’t smoking.


                                                Rene and Louis

                                                Trusted no one after that,

                                                Not even Elsa.

                                                Paul was still missing, his coat,

                                                Deserted, painted on his chair.

 


 

                                                 At The Minor Prophet’s Poker Game 

                                                Jonah passes on sushi

                                                While Hosea complains

                                                Endlessly about his wife.

 

                                                Habakkuk shuffles

                                                The cards but Joel

                                                Is too angry to cut them.

 

                                                Nahum seeks the comfort

                                                Of Abishag the Shunemite.

                                                Haggai and Malachi

 

                                                Draw two cards each and

                                                Micah walks humbly from the room

                                                Leaving all his cash on the table.

two poems by Mark J. Mitchell

Jody Plant
 

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