let’s run with ’em,
cut cloud paper dolls
across this sky.
if we get ’em snip
-snapping fast enough,
I bet we can fly.
::
Yesterday’s Poetic Asides poem.
let’s run with ’em,
cut cloud paper dolls
across this sky.
if we get ’em snip
-snapping fast enough,
I bet we can fly.
::
Yesterday’s Poetic Asides poem.
even the dogwood trees
have got no bite left,
no spring
in their step. no sway.
the breeze has loosed
both blossom and bellow
, the un
-mellow
mayhem of May.
we barter.
we beg.
we dig for dregs.
but
summer’s here
to
stay.
::
I’m late to my own party over at dVerse, where yesterday was Quadrille Monday. Come play!
show me a garden
and i’ll sow you a song
,
fallow and un
-talon’d and sylla
-bled only by sword.
show me a word
and i’ll fire you a phrase
,
some ancient of days
petal’d glee –
all dandelion fluff
flight and the stuff
of new
dreams.
::
she plucks them
one by one
he loves me
loves me not
loves me
loves me not
loves me
loves me not
loves me
loves me…not
drops the last one
frowns again
and then:
{he loves me}
counts the stem.
::
This poem is an unquiet dragon,
waiting for the years to flame
at the same rate as her rage,
for the page to turn to ash
before anyone reads, needs
something more from her center.
She’s held together with mud and
scars, a crinkling of stars along
the edge. She’s wedged in tight
in the hole of an abandoned tree
hidden in plain sight for none to
see. She’s trying to find her
wings, the things that make up
her muchness, jumpstart the such
-ness of a silence she can no longer
sing. She’s grown tired of the sting
of syllable and stage. This page. The
burning of her own bright heart.
::
::
Started with a kiss
(it was only a kiss)
and then a little bliss
and then a smallish twist
(of fate, of time, of page)
and then here’s the gist:
trysts
fists
rage.
::
No more “He taught me how to walk
and to speak and to fake
like a regular lady.” No more
guardroom analysis or matriculated
days or Paris waived until October
starts volcanic
winter. No more complicated
chemistry (she fell in love)
(and out again)
or fancy gloves or lecture room re:
actions. No more silver
slivering of mirrors or milk or meat
or mercury rising. No more surprising
pigments of paint or phraseology
that just ain’t
right for her tongue. No,
the storage closet’s done and the skeletons
are dancing dangerous medicine
with radical apothecary hopes. Nope
to universities and gyms. Yes to gin.
The nutritional value of
twinkies and twinkle little star.
Clouded art, apart
-meant to vent. To sting. No more
singing (in the rain or otherwise)
of chimneys (chim-chim-cher-ee)
or chairs or children in pairs
or glasses that make her look
smart. She is
(fluid)
brewer of time, condensing vapors
and vim in a signature swim of
strange. Professor Emeritus
Extraordinairus of all things in
-sane.
::
Just Doo-in a ‘little delightful, insightful insanity born of an awesome wordlist.
they land.
they shift. they stick.
they
s
l
i
p
through our fingers,
or linger
just a little too long.
they run wrong. they
go right. they feel
like an endless fight
of fear and blood and
salt and sweat and tears.
they veer over a hill
we didn’t see, flee
as if chased, hasten
our pulse
our pace
our breath.
we fight and flight
and freeze
to death, resurrect
the ashes
and fall
in love
with it all
all over again.
::
{a lunar year}
::
Wolf howls.
Snow falls,
rises again.
Buck horns
in.
Sturgeon swims
in indigo.
Worm wriggles
silver glow.
Pink blushes.
Strawberry crushes.
Cold shivers
in star slivers.
Flower blooms,
unblooms.
Corn sways,
a husk of her old self.
Hunter stays.
Beaver carves her own way.
::
Lillian had a fun word over at dVerse this past Monday.