Mantis 22 (Summer 2024)
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Reginald Saint-Vincent Paul
Mirror-Mirror
A top star Dog
pets, pat, rail, stab
regal diva model’s
evil mined stun buns.
No spit tool tips emit
sleek dew on deer skin.
But seldom repaid
stressed loots, meets
a mad rat’s stool.
Stop, live, wolf & level:
Trot sod yard.
Span stink-eye!
Tap bad desserts.
Wed straw dam.
Top’s taps flow draw
sleep, noon naps, ward room.
Racecar, Dray, Kayak...
Reviver(s) defied!
I am, Moor, saw Madam God
civic radar maps, redder!
Refer Eve repay liar peels way
was swap, no-parts w/ reel
strap-on keel boy-pit!
Redivider... leer!
Sway not.
I got avid do’s
paws, nuts, time.
RSVP is working on his 3rd unpublished collection of 30 years of poetry in excess. From Here To There, is entirely written in the past year (May 2023-24) in Taiwan, where he resides. He was born in Brooklyn, NYC, lived also in Harlem (before leaving for South Asia), Miami (Florida, and many other cities there), Boston, MA (for 8 yrs, 3 mths, & 12 days), and other memorable places. Reginald Saint-Vincent Paul’s Mirror-Mirror, is his reflection on his ways, of living in ecstasy, w/o shame, nor limits.