misty, dusty

I clutch that wooden peacocka remnant of my childhoodmemory of it all surfaces misted thoughts shadowthe reflected green wallsI stop, filter it all out coolly watch the wind dancing.that peacock moves in my palmmy psych dusts itself cleansing all the remembrancesI make way for new onesbut that wooden peacock stays “only a small token, but [...]

blowing over that mug of coffee

blowing over that mug of coffee,(a habit he had picked in trucker days)he stared at its frothy stirringsfracture of time had made him rescue herfrom what he didn’t know as yeta hindrance she was for him, his workabandon her, he just couldn’twithout exchanging a single wordhe could hear the noise she heard in her headher [...]

static of the radio bustles at me

I dip the spoon into the coagulated milkand let out coarse cursesI rant like a diode gone wrongstatic of the radio bustles at meyour salacious sagas bore me to deathI run away and hitch a rideand think of the fling I had long agonow leaving behind another rancid pastI am homeward boundenjoying the ride in [...]

your yellow shirt contrasts with the pillar

either you leave that pillar aloneor I go out of my way to pull you apartoh, I know you say it’s symbolicI ask of what, you don’t answerI tap my shoes on the groundplaying undiluted musicboxes of my memories fall on itI also see your shoes lying aboutyou stand there bare feettrying to escape into [...]

don’t forget to get my cigars

Cemetery in Malvern by Doug Shaver where have you led meI don’t see coloursgreen merges into brownsgrays grow out of red trees blur over my portraitghostly though I am.a sideways mirror-I like the macabre me exhaust fumes have marked headstonesas I am new corpsemine is fairly clear yet all this serenitybores me to death(oh I [...]

acuity of touch

hearts slump against each otherlost in the seance of love flaming sky loiters towards them sanguine espression dissolves ACUITY OF TOUCH dissolved sanguinity flames the loitering sky love for lost seance breaks slumped hearts “crying against that fur is so comforting”

abstracting

random papersa few torn haphazardlysome cut precisely to size lay jumbled on the floormy nimble fingers tryingto bring some kind of order that thimble-sized manjumped into that disordermoonwalked all over it eyes fixed on its movementsI watched the fireworkswith a sense of wonder patterns fell into placewith such grace and fluiditypapered into so much beauty [...]

equus asinus asinus

smoky mist blows from the greenish skygiant scorpion falls on the marshy landits legs pull out a weed, the wetlands split into twostrange creatures stumble outwith unaccounted limbs, “equus asinus asinus- homosapeons”calls out a croaked voiceall exclaim and fall silentscaly body of that man-animalscares even the weirdest of thosethe sky falls to embrace allblue scales [...]

I am trying to think of stuff I never told you, mom

I am trying to think of stuff I never told you, mompractically everything about me you have knownright from the day I issued forth from your womb yes, I never asked you those algebraic problemsthose long chemical equations and Physics sumswithout my asking you drove away my phantoms this aries daughter of yours has been [...]

x-y-z: all three axes

Once I started, it wrote itself. I did it without any pause, let alone editing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ angelically moving like a belly dancer who convolutes to a tune she draped herself into him her ethereal presence formulated certain gentle feelings in that stone heart inching towards his soul he jack-knifed knocking her lovely form aside as [...]