FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: ZODIAC ENERGY Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words zodiac and/or energy, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on July 19th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Zodiac Energy will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, July 20th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Jackie Chou

The Aquarian 


He offers me tea

and chocolate wafers

a jug in one hand

a paper plate in the other

his bare chest

a milk-and-honey hue 


The water he bears

has no shape or color

but takes on the form

of whatever it's in

a jar, a cup, a river

reflecting vibrant things

like birds, mountains, flowers 


A style not his own

the print silk shirt

the blue jacket 

with the velvet lapel 

blends into the milieu 

that he is in


So I shake my head

to his offer 

of food and drink 

knowing my Ariean fire

will never dance 

with his water


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