ed markowski | 15 poems

Ed Markowski—15 Poems
Lilliput Review, #172

Ed Markowski’s keeps saying it without words in this, Don Wentworth’s, latest (December, 2009) Lilliput Broadside, 16 pages, 15 poems…for only one dollar in the publisher/poet’s begging bowl…
so much silence, so much light…

nothing
much
to
say
but…

–norbert blei

the scarecrow’s sutra

to
become

a
buddha

become
a

crow
become

a
scarecrow

become
corn

silk
woven

into
wind.

a

a

a

storefront church
no one has
a hat to pass

a

a

a

atheist’s funeral (an eight word story)

in the dead man’s lapel,
a plastic rose.

a

a

[from Ed Markowski-15 poems, Lilliput Review #172, December 2009, Price: $1.00 Don Wentworth, Editor, 282 Main Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201]