Illumination

 We lumbering solar systems
        striding in swarms of points of Light
               chatting utterance of cosmic popcorn
                       we're bubbling infinite
                               we're radiating entropy

We slung our skins around the sun
       we fanned alluvium
               we drenched the event Horizon
                       irrigated croplands
                                of the possible

Every particle blazing starlight
       brilliance
               blinds my eyes
                       shimmers
                               throughout every gap

Lend me the grace of the corner of your eye
        that I may see as you
                in Panovision
                        all reflections crystal bright

Lend me the confidence of your intent
        that I may kindle lanterns
                rippling dawn across
                        these Myriad lakes of ink

 

Toronto Pearson

Restlessly

 Stepping cross glass
                girdled shoppers
               winged slippers traipsing Copper

Spilling groceries onto Heavens
               mind clicking digits,
                               calculating
               «How to get me more»

And tramping oozes uptown
               swarming footed millipedes
               grasping hungry plastic
               roving eyes         on each antenna.
                               dragging bags of entrails
                                               along the concrete
                                               a human smear

Winding out through turnstiles
               roaming every avenue
                               fists clutching
                               lipstick
              marking hieroglyphics onto
                               walls of brick
               broaching            chocolate
                               tangled
                                               golden yarn
               causing us to stumble gossip
                               elbows jerking
               as some fading echoes
                               spur rust
                                               to sprout along the tracks

23 May 2022 | Midtown Manhatten

Diabetic

 Toothless, sprawling on the bench
                  chain gumming Jolly Ranchers
        his legs inflated,
                 sores erupting
                 toes gone blue, gone numb,
                 causing him to stumble
                                   in Scarlet runners
        with hands like claws
                 shoveled candies into pocket
                                   grimy blue parka

Eyes like goldfish scanned carriage
                 darting for shred of sympathy
                                   which we withheld
                 furtively spying
                                   this
                                   miserable sucking man.

NYC Subway

Liquid

Falling
           from
                  Land
                  to
                  Land:
                             offspring of the clouds
                                          frosting of the sky

Gathered into mighty pools, that bear witness to the
                                                                           March
                                         March of ponderous whisps
                                                      cluttering horizon

                 Ascending upon moonbeam
            Wringing freshness of starlight
                                   drenching furrows
                                    mustering to channels
                                    mingling with roots
                                                      falling back to Heaven                  

Mirrored in an emerald
                                      Lake:
                                                     Row
                                                     upon
                                                     Row

 

YYZ to LGA

Humanoid in Flight

 All
these fragments:
bitterness we crave
bitterness we shirk
creeping fog along the lens
squealing in the
channel of my
ear, as
pressure lapses
mediation among
belly, spine
elbows fending armrests
salt & pepper, neatly trimmed
ankles, folded
hips stowed
anus mute
rest upon the leather air
creeping hum along the wrist
celebration on my tongue
vagueness on my eye
swaying on the sky

13 May 2022 | Westjet