Deli Sunday

-Monica Goldberg

July 27, 2010

No one is miraculous. 

Except for the customers

rearranging puzzles

of fractured worlds

with the graceful icing

of lightheaded maturity.

Frozen realities melting

onto sloping foundations

of crooked memories

stretching hearts

orchestrating shadows

that centre the landings.

For prayers waiting for detection.

Monica Goldberg is a surrealist Australian poet and fiction writer. She has worked as a high school teacher, short film producer, journalist, photographer and radio announcer. Her short stories and poems have been published in numerous journals including Etchings 2008, Ilura Press and One Eighth Vulture. Her first novel is a rather quirky post modern, post holocaust and new age exploration about growing up.