Nobody really
accompanies
or escorts you
anywhere
they are far
too focused on
the impression
they are making
on the wet
plaster of a moment
and then when
the present
hardens
into the past
they pretend to
pay homage
to the now
bronzed monumental
memories left behind
but really they are
mostly studying
their own molded
features and
marveling
at who they
once were
and then
of course
as an afterthought
they reflect on
your reflected
glory
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Ivan Jenson’s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in Art News, Art in America, and Interview magazine. His art has sold at Christie’s, New York. His poems have appeared in Word Riot, Zygote in my Coffee, Camroc Press Review, Haggard and Halo, Poetry Super Highway, Mad Swirl, Underground Voices Magazine, Blazevox, and many other magazines, online and in print. Jenson is also a Contributing Editor for Commonline magazine. Ivan Jenson's debut novel Dead Artist is available as a paperback and on Amazon Kindle and Nook. His new novel, a psychological thriller entitled Seeing Soriah is now available as an eBook or in Paperback on Amazon. A collection of Ivan Jenson's drawings and poetry will soon be published by Hen House Press, New York.
