As any journey begins you take a first step and ask for directions “Can you tell me how to get to …” (push out the worn refrains of Sesame Street) “… Bonavista?” jot the words into memory and promptly forget what comes after left …. stand, ponder, look around (avoid all eye contact) “Just admiring…
Your Tail Curls Me Round
A morning bed, a head that yearns Makes my back burn With your body that yearns Makes my back, makes my back burn Your panting a daily reprise My awakening you baptize And your panting a daily reprise Keeps me alive, keeps me alive You curled Oh, the world curls around Your tail unfurled around,…
Whale of a Tale
It’s quite the sight to behold, this St Lawrence estuary where inquisitive pregnant women loll in the water — but seriously, be quiet, watch your motor mouths — they’re irritated by the transient noise crossing the sounds. Yes, they liquid beautiful in those dark blue waters but mind your place and keep a shotgun handy…
Caught within a Snow Globe
Caught within a snow globe from dusted dream I awoke liquid paint, an illuminated saint leech the Pleiades, cut the light to bleed Caught within a snow globe broken feathers fill the air Caught within a snow globe wielded hypothesizes, empty promises cracking open firmament’s marrow sunrise, an insectarium, butterflies Caught within a snow globe…
Creation
Out of time, there were Two only One and One and blue but a bucket of liquid indigo two paddlers moving in a row boat and oar a compass held where do we go, the One yelled? and on the horizon they pointed without purpose and disappointed they moved and mapped turning in a circle…
Fireflyghts
Mix the black and nyght with fireflyghts starwrite the sky with light glowings tumbledrum paint an awening bright hum and dance a bumble-blueing. Fireflyght, light-swish song switch it on electrick imagiknation wonder where wires whirly-hook dirk a dragenlight darken shun raven’s eyes circle neon looks. ∞ Poem drafted and submitted as part of my…