Monday, June 27, 2016

Or you turn standing toward me

Did you lay down in the water and spin your smile toward the sun
implementing a distinguished variation of Horus choreography, a blemish
grass fed and leaning into the fence for just that one moment before the touch down?

Are you willing to sink down before you fly, before you turn standing toward me
brandishing that unseen side of light that is called darkness in the bath?

If so then so be it and nothing I can do can capture that essence that is you.


Friday, June 03, 2016

Capsize yonder vaccination

This unrepentant documentary volunteer
Fell to her knees and slowly but surely
Disappeared beneath the waves of her master
Obsession with water disease and disaster

They chase her around dictionaries and towns
Unnamed and filled with minions whole cloth
Vagaries and non-informed opinions buried
Like a warm excretion on a beach vacation

Pistol packing Annie doing time on the trail
Fanny pack bouncing and the edge of her skirt
Flounced and getting dirtier by the minute
"Shoot me with your drug" she says, "for I am in it."