A CALENDAR BROKE

by Martha Landman

            for John

            and heaven is imagined as whole and unceasing

                        -- Christina Murphy

Dawn enlightens a Puter jungle

a classic world

ends

in different time zones

God grins

yesterday

my Mayan calendar broke —

guess it’s no use

claiming on the warranty.

The moon, the earth

the stars dance a wild galaxy

a small eternity

this earth

this planet

a last cigarette

suffocates a man’s son

Gerald Benedict broods in

silence

tomorrow has come.

Martha Landman is a South African-born Australian poet residing in tropical Queensland.  She has published on- and off-line and recently co-authored a book of poems and short stories with Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke, titled The Paradoxophies, which is available on www.lulu.com.