Cabal
Buy a round of the steeped drink of crazy, wild hooch
or champagne flutes filled to near the brim.
Enjoy merry adventures
where one might imagine crazy patterns.
Puff up your mind and follow along.
All patrons have an alcoholic neural network that reveals
a hidden truth,
that enters the blood in the veins.
But here, let reality come to a halt.
Please, no more real life
in this venue
where barstool people chatter foolishly about all the
pretty things,
or the highlights of recent events.
Strong drink’s promise that one can follow into the light
from darkness,
letting us hang fire,
because here,
you can sit back and take your time.
Linda Imbler
Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include eleven
published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First and Second editions;
Lost and Found; Red Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sights; Spica’s
Frequency; Doubt and Truth; A Mad Dance; Twelvemonth; Viewpoints While In Rome;
and a paperback version of That Fifth Element..
Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s
Secret Song; Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element;
and Per Quindecim. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can
be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com