changers trying not to run
go about the solemn business of moving
chairs, beds, guitars, walls, raising floors,
putting keys in doors. On the plane back I
watched someone watch Columbo watching
Columbo himself watch a magic show while
he (Columbo) was watched. Scene change:
I left you my blue teeth to find, imagining
you baring your incisors right back at ’em.
Sometimes it’s smoother to spectate yourself
from the vantage of third person singular
nothing’s easier than cracking open a cold
smile at someone else’s bubbling misfortune.
Silent Scene
Freyr Thorvaldsson is an Icelandic writer living in London, where he spends his time writing poems and stories. His poems have been published in Ink, Sweat and Tears and Spellbinder. He is working on his debut novel.