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Celestial

When I yearn for a leaving,
things celestial trend with me.
Someone who knew
bade me to consider the sand
on the beaches of the world.
Each grain a placeholder
for a faraway sun,
and I am stunned with overwhelm.
Lifted from the everyday.
Marked to come out and play.

Eye to eye

There’s a small bird

stays to have a look

with a tik tok head

puts its trust for a time

~who sent you, little one?~

to eye me up

to tweet a tsk tsk

yet sweetly insist

on a finger perch?

A bit of small talk,

I think,

would be nice.

Look to the warmth

Cast your line into the soft static of six days from now.

Feet up, warm cup,

and let someone in.

One who’s been down.

Yes, that’s the one,

my love.

Mutuals

~Fifty said to Fifty~

Time is growing short, growing cold. Know that i will be with you, all the way to the next time. Be on guard, lest I drift into the lock of sleep. Charge through the night, that you may play in broad day. Put away the fearsome fear, until another year.

A brush with life

I tried a brush of camel hair
for what it did to gauze
Too brash it was to have a care
and so it gave me pause

Your marble eyes
of gimlet guise
demand a fine detail
A painter’s hand
an exercise
in Art beyond the pale

Flattery will get you somewhere

My head is turned

by a siren’s accolades

and all other voices

of the moment

come as bothersome braying

murderous crows

Leaf of litmus

Once,

I peeled back a peekaboo page,

thinking to find what lay beneath-

some lines writ in a flowing hand

that only I would understand.

But that leaf,

so soft and supple,

had done its unkind blot,

and what was inked so deeply

had faded from my thought.

A litmus for lost love.

to mitigate the noises

of the settling night.

To knit a womb of warm and snowy static

that gloves, in syllables,

~We are on guard~

~We will see to care~

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