Arlene Corwin Poetry

Fun Exercise In F For Freckles

The freckling fugued

In June of this year.

Funny old freckles, fueled

By some fund of fugitive energy,

Frustrating mystery.

Calf and thigh,

Chest and breast;

Frankly the most

Fantastically fecund

Of foreign tattooing –

(in at the moment, tattooing, that is)

But puzzling.

Not ugly, just foreign

And vaguely in fashion.

I can’t say I’m friends with them;

Nature the Changer, its signs untranslatable,

Signs of finality filtering through.

Flecks on the flesh

That show more past than future.

Freckle so new,

What are you?

Fun Exercise In F For Freckles 7.18.2011

A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Circling Round Nature;

Arlene Corwin