Category Archives: Poetry

Floral Reef

“Always Open” sign

pit stop ‘neath our aery wings

hopscotch Grab’n’Go

Eyes Listening

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as Journstar
takes last sip of her nightcap
feels the weight of her eyelids
the sky
the hills
the trees
the lake
they speak to me
each dusk a different story

NOEL

Haven

just a small parcel
garnish’d by man
our housekeepers
preserving our endangerment

though not the wild
the vanishing wild
consum’d by
cement
technology
and violence

this alternate paradise
must suffice as paradise
until Nature’s children
germinate
from Mankind’s progress
… or Mankind’s ashes

Breach

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whimsical glimpse
in my sleep
only shadows
of my thoughts

the tongue
of my mind
numb
speechless

knowing her name
knowing the dream of her
cannot hear me

until
the snake
of untimely darkness
becomes a comfort
I’ll never remember

Coliseum

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a scar in th’ earth
where a thumb signal
for life or death
was laud’d
then
in the most civiliz’d
of realms

Mates

how opportune
our former flesh
parch’d
to barren veins
to silent hearts
reshap’d
luster’d
by Nature
by Time
by Mankind
slumbering on
embosom’d
for inquisitive eyes
but together
still

Halloween

Real Me at Poolside—
Other Me at Silver Temple—
Both of Me are beckon’d
by the chanting
of very young Aliens
with very sweet fangs:
“Trick or Treat!”