William Michaelian

Poems, Notes, and Drawings

Tag Archive for ‘Buttons’

Remnants of a Dream

Although I was quite poor, somehow, a new shirt had come into my possession. The shirt had beautiful buttons, no two of them alike. Having heard good buttons were valuable, I presented the shirt to a large, pale, flabby man standing behind a counter, hoping to exchange the article for a useful sum of money. The man glanced at the shirt, told me he had all the buttons he needed, […]

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As If Buttons Are Eyes

As If Buttons Are Eyes

An early-morning walk in the cold . . . the bark of a dog . . . slowly rising smoke . . .   As If Buttons Are Eyes Before my bath I set out clean clothes gently, now, as if buttons are eyes. From “Morning Notes: Three Short Poems” Poems, Slightly Used, October 24, 2008   [ 275 ]

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