April 2022 – Aremyfeetofftheground

Tempests

Having come from the seas of your storms and decades of disquiet, I step, directionless, on an unmoving Earth. Being tooled for havoc, I despair of knowing what might fill this brazen peace, this wild surcease.

[Art: The Ship, by Salvador Dali]

Womb

Do not speak of it.
Do not see me.
Give what you have to give,
willing or no,
and don’t mind the scars.

The remnants of your gown,
oft removed,
keep us coming back for more.

But, in time,
you will womb a tree
that reaches to Heaven.

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[Art by Zdzislaw Beksinski]

Steadfast

~ Though ugly are those thorny trees
with octopussy limbs,
—I say they’re Kings of Forestry-
conductors of its hymns.~

Jolly Roger

I saw a UFO last night-
Looked like a pirate ship.

But, soon as I turned on the light,
it vanished with a blip.

Must’ve seen me- was it shy
of being talked about?

“Come back!”, I said, to empty sky-
My light, I turned it out.

[Art by Francisco Fonseca]

A thousand cuts

Forgetting the landscape of shaving, I run the razor sidewise, coaxing a bleed. We have forgotten Corinthian love, or never knew it and wonder if it exists. Wounds, we have, unsalted but unhealed.