Stare and stare
at any chair
logic fogs
slips the leash
a thought balloon absconds 
adrift in its own airway
and the heartwood
centre
s-p-l-i-n-t-e-r-s

What is it now?
Just ask;
the right lobe rights itself
atomises an answer
all four legs
akimbo
stuffing froths forth
as clouds 
textured
trite as trash
arch/car/hair/chai/

Unsettled
the knowing knower's
gone on
alone 
but I remain
unseated

26 thoughts on “Unseated”

1. This to me (together with the quote) made me see a painting of Salvador Dali… the visuals are surreal, love it.

   1. I could not have wanted anything more for this poem than that so very many thanks Bjorn and for hosting OLN

2. I love where the Arp quotation took you, Laura, to surreal place where ‘a thought balloon absconds’.

   1. many thanks Kim – my thoughts were on the wing with this one

      1. You’re always welcome, Laura.

3. Arp indeed, floated off inside its meandering thought balloon. ‘Tis divine but its seat is airborne.

   1. flying by the seat of my pants as the saying goes- thanks Brendan

4. I love the surreal journey of this poem, which also seems sad to me, never seated, like always waiting for Godot.

   1. we are always waiting for Godot standing, sitting or on our knees 😉

      1. Yes, indeed. 🙂

5. I love the surrealism of this one, Laura! 😍 Especially this part; “the right lobe rights itself/atomises an answer/all four legs akimbo. 💜💜

   1. ah yes we need our right brain to see such things – thank you Sanaa

6. Supersurrealisticism at its best Thanks

   1. Ron, your home brewed lexicon is as always supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

7. Growing up in Oxford I was raised on Lewis Carrol, Lear and other purveyors of surrealist poetry and this poem took me right back into those spaces, Laura…

   1. when younger I thought nonsensical Lear, Carrol etc was just nonsense till the surrealism of the 60s gave me a new insight – thank you for putting this poem in those spaces

8. I know that feeling–how everything suddenly becomes alien, strange. You’ve rendered it well. (K)

   1. when meanings shift, the earth tremors!

      1. It does–a bit too often these days for my liking.

9. Interesting and well written, Laura.

   1. thank you

      1. You are welcome.

10. Mind bender, for sure! I enjoyed it, Laura, like I would an abstract painting.

    1. thank you – I’m just starting to really like abstract painting as I try it out myself

       1. You are welcome. You paint too? Wow!

          1. I’m trying!!

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