“Advent” - Adrian Slonaker

“Advent”

         - Adrian Slonaker

Advent occupies the

calendar's flyover country, the

beige backwater between

Black Friday and

Christmas Eve when

radiators rumble against the creeping cold

and overdoses of darkness

while we fidget

through a four-week wait

for frenzied family fracases and

busted bank balances and

torturous travel trajectories and

reducing regimens repulsed by a

parade of pastries and pigs in blankets

against a soundtrack of tinkling Yuletide

tunes as irritating

as an icicle through the

iris of the eye.

And beneath the burden of

a yawning year about to be

euthanized by Father Time, students must

still cram for exams as

grown-ups grind and groan through

a schedule that continues to spew

the weariness of workdays.

Adrian Slonaker

 

Language professional Adrian Slonaker lives in downtown Moncton, 

New Brunswick, Canada. Adrian's work, which has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in WINK: Writers in the Know, The Be Zine, Gnashing Teeth, The Pangolin Review and others.