The Artiste

The Artiste

written by: Eve Dobbins

The art of war
Sickles between my toes
Ticking my sense of time
Stealing the rhododendrons
From the gardens, blood red trickling with the red rose petals running rover
stealing my sensibilities. Like the poet, I am I cringe…

Running interference
Zig- zagging like a football player
Called in from the bench
Numbing all semblance of time
Expressed in soft spoken meters
By harsh old-time coaches
Beating rhythm on players while the crowds sit soft
Pedaling in the grand stands and doing a back step cadence
As the flag flies
over a lazy Southern day…

Hazy heat with a chance of rain
Phone dinging and hearing back from you while sailing
Through the rush hour traffic of no man’s land at street S weaving one way roundabouts
Returning home to wave like a drunken sailor dodging the muddy lines of debarkation of the mine fields
With lined up artillery like facing family
With no boundaries
Lost in the metrics of their own needs
Welding slights as they might
I stand for the flag, I watch the coach
Beaten down by rumors and then I rise
Like the South doing battle once again.

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Eve Dobbins

Eve Dobbins was born in New York City and raised in a small town located in the Catskill Mountains where everyone knew your name. After graduating from Stony Brook University with an English degree, she spent several years working in Manhattan in the garment industry; as a real estate property appraiser with the city of New York and a girl Friday for local radio talk show host, Barry Farber, as well as a stint in the United States Navy. Her favorite authors are Lee Child, Lisa Unger, and Ann Rule. Her favorite quote for inspiration is “Everyone has two eyes but no one has the same view” (Wael Harakeh). Her husband is her co-conspirator in writing and baking which paved the way for Cupcake Cache, a gourmet cupcakerie which closed in 2015. Mrs. Dobbins has a MA in TESOL and has lived and worked in Asia and the Middle East. Presently, she makes a living as an English teacher. She was named in August 2017 “Poet of the Month” by “The Horror Zine.”

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