Tony Walton

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I saw you yesterday in a yellow summer dress,
the color of high dosage diazepam, through the
rain streaked window of a familiar bar, as I walked by,
somewhere in the city,
...

In the stunned heat of
a day in July
A woman is leaning from
the fifth-floor window
...

I realize you are busy planting crops, fighting
typhoid, dysentery and various fevers,
not to mention Indians (they control gambling now!)
...

They come for you-
in old fashioned hats,
from where you don't know,
to f uck you hard against every wall
...

As I turn left off Oxford Street
cloaked in a low sky and shuffling
along with the other furrowed brows
...

I walked my dog this morning
and as we stepped into the newness
of the day, a large Boxer ran over
and bit him,
...

7.

My friend Pete is a good man,
been with the Company for 9 years,
married to his wife for 7 years.
...

Oh, my friend
you have got to
create it
invent it
...

She had moved to her bedroom
almost a year ago,
existence: it deepens
like a coastal shelf
...

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.Aloud."
Coco Chanel

Childrens's crayons, a clustered
...

Awaking from a delicious dream I turn in my bed
to face the sea window and peer through quiet eyes
towards a fresh orange sunrise that looks painted
in oils, as it emerges from the inky depths
...

There are delving days when the ink blue sea whispers to me
in a sexy voice, 'Come over here boy, and give me a kiss.'

'Hell no girl! I am not easy like that! Anyway, I have
...

I am doing nothing at the pool today
clouds drowsing above
someone is bombing cities
someone is screaming in traffic
...

The snow this morning falls
it is wet and young

and will wash away. I can smell
...

They come for you-
in old fashioned hats,
from where you don't know,
to fu ck you hard against every wall
...

All I can say to you
is that life and existence
is nothing more than
all the small print
...

For a short while
man was in charge.

with TV shows and youthful rubbish
...

The morning sun peeks
into this hotel room above bourbon street
our silent breaths take shape
hers, and mine
...

This day is ashamed of itself
and wishes to be done

in its defense it never asked to be born
...

I am writing this behind your back,
actually in the passenger seat
beside you,
...

Tony Walton Biography

Tony Walton's work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements. It's engagement and tackling of moral and social issues and its variety of form, tone and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, morals, the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature. Tony Walton lives in the Cayman Islands and has been published in various magazines. caymanchess@yahoo.com)

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The Girl In A Yellow Dress

I saw you yesterday in a yellow summer dress,
the color of high dosage diazepam, through the
rain streaked window of a familiar bar, as I walked by,
somewhere in the city,
and I could swear you saw me, then turned away -
like that moment when a bird decides
not to eat from your hand.I had not seen you since
graduation, but I thought you should know this:

I hit harder in schoolyard fights when
you were watching (and you did watch!) .
I tackled harder in rugby matches when you
were watching.
I ran faster in races when you
were watching.

There is an August beach photograph of you and me,
in our 19th year, tumbling hair, greedy as seagulls.
Maybe you've just been all the wild in me.
Some pictures don't come down easy from the wall.

It's been years of small victories and large defeats and
drinks poured,3 cars,2 dogs, expired drivers licenses,
landlords, mortgages, and 15 Christmases.

Are you happy as you thought you would be?

I'm just lying here, writing you this email on
these hard springs. So let's meet at that bar, tomorrow.Yes?

Don't worry.All is well here,
but
there is Something Coming towards me
across the floor.Oh, it's just a rolling bottle of wine,
this
time.

There is a place in me that is never filled.
And this is where I am likely to be found.
If you can find this place - Do Come In.

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