Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Topiary in a Teacup

I want the green
luminary
vegetation
like a soul 
come over
nimble quiet
asleep like a mall
remembering 
the fullness
of tiny flowers



Shore

I do not think I will pass
into day
with solitary hotels
next to the ocean
nor eat the stems of roses
with the spine,
the head, the waist
the bones
where the seabed
walkers walked
the house in
a theater
of undulating plates
with windows
looking through the fish
with the unforgiving eye

A Wave

The cavernous unfolding
fond eye of the dolphin
rolling in

As green fish
with extraneous idioms
limit the soul's blue lozenge

devoid
of the reddening bronze
ends on an extended hand

All Life is like this Afteroon

All life is like this afternoon on your young sandy face the weight of the stars the body tasting like snow a slipcover of communic...