Words

Speaking the words,
Some heard, many split
vanished
              banished by eye blinks
                             by doze of day after
                             pre-occupation
                             strangled mind
                             by puberty's aroma.
               That clattering
               is the undestructed mug
                              brimming myopic
                              check parcel, burning
                              barked hook of stumbling of tomorrow.

Go back, again speak:
word the ears, tug them.
Re-pave the streets of futility.
Re-cane the every-bearing berries.
Re-vine the trellis of tomorrow.
unfetter the irrepressible dint.

Coral Amulet

Glowing as cherry petals,
polished stone carves arc
               like half atoll
                                     or Molokini.

Pressed beneath:
dessicated silver wings
               of flying fish
               , now loosened in breeze,
               flutter, casting refractions.

Silverwings could be sewn, woven
               into shimmering suit.

I seek to toss the bright stone
               down from orbit
               threading atmosphere
               alighting upon a crest of ice,
                                       jeweled plain
                                      suffusing midnight sun.

If, from space, you toss a stone
               to Antarctica,
it will remain
               to the end of time.

Tim's on Millstream

It's a chewy little 'burb
         trammeled in patient lanes
         burbans in their gumboots
                                   black and pink

Me slurp cinnamon nutmeg grey draught
Me swipe aside crumbs,
       spare sesame seed
                 kiltering to tile.

Scant time to tarry.

Jubilee Courtyard

Splash ever sheet cascade
                hastening.

Twin sparrows investigate
                jet beyond catkins.
Cherry dollops poise
lillies congregate
arcs of ripple knit shimmer
                on skeeterless pond.
                The green the moist
                The pink reposed
                The grey air meandering
                past hospital wings.
                Cavern calling
                HVAC hum.