Ideas are fleeting like
air molecules, or flicks
of a woman’s eyelashes
after the first appliance
of eyeshadow.
Or maybe they are more
like basket weaved hats
that no one wears anymore,
not unless they want to be
seen or reenacting,
as if there is a difference.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
See all his poems on Tea House here.
