Passage



An arching gape fruited
plain as Jane Boo said
the passage was narrow
into nary a moment to
spare. Eye of the needle
blinks semaphore
peeking through
gossamer cause as
affects the yet living
still. And frightsome
bullies trundle through
the tunnel past the
gateway to the opening
of spaces between
promise and dearth of
room to run. Colossi in
the peephole bungle the
magic living large in a
looming like a light in
the absence thereof.












Philip Byron Oakes b. 1955, Tulsa, Oklahoma, B.A. Eng. Lit. University of Houston 1979, married to the inimitable Tammi Sue Powell, two children (Ryan and Lara), works as a land title examiner, presently residing in Austin, Texas, has had his work published in the Gihon River Review, descant, Oxford Magazine, Chaffin Journal, among others, has recently published a chapbook, Rain and Bread (Leatherleaf Press***Austin, Texas).






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