Introducing a new series of poems by Julian Matthews. Julian is a writer and Pushcart-nominated poet published in The American Journal of Poetry, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Borderless Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dream Catcher Magazine, Live Encounters Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and The New Verse News, among others. He is a mixed-race minority from Malaysia and lived in Ipoh for seven years. Currently based in Petaling Jaya, he is a media trainer and consultant for senior management of multinationals on Effective Media Relations, Social Media and Crisis Communications. He was formerly a journalist with The Star and Nikkei Business Publications Inc
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By Julian Matthews
I guess you are not into spin
It’s rotation and pivot action
that turns you on
It’s a kind of meditation – even contemplative
First this way Stop
Then that way Stop
Back and forth with soldier-like regularity
A syncing brass player in a marching band
You are a moving instrument orchestrating
the air
The word for it is oscillate, from the Latin oscillare
which means “to swing” — but you’re no swinger
You are a go-go-getter, caged on a wall,
gyrating to your own rhythm,
the music in your head-
wind sublime
Unlike a pendulum that tells time, your tick tock
clockwork motion is what brings the chill factor
to every room, rendering us all
cooler than we seem
First published by Spillwords Press, USA.
