She furls and flutters,
sips cherry dew; powder-blush.
Sidewalk lady luck.
Nature
Elemental Connection /
Look into the light
cracked,
Refracted,
and
Tell me it’s worthless.
Pick up this stone soil
stacked,
Compacted,
and
Tell me it’s weightless.
Run across cold heat
tickled,
Restricted,
and
Tell me it’s lifeless.
Get out of this well
capped,
Confounded,
and
Tell me it’s waterless.
Tired?
So rest in this place,
A while,
Protected.
Then,
Tell me where,
Located,
and
Loveless!
I’ll toil to unearth,
Expose life to light, warmth and dew
To nourish,
and
Sacred!
Departed!
Disenchanted!
Bring sweet life anew.
Tell me
all this,
Lest I,
Forget
To tell you.
Another F’ing Firebird /
Firebird,
Alight in your descent,
The past ablaze.
Wreck as you swoop,
Unravel golden threads
and
Prise open soft flesh,
Exposing matter to matter.
Sing as you go;
Your first and last elegy,
ever the panegyric narcissist.
Life turns earthwards.
A lull.
Swift shift —
Subtle yet substantial.
You again.
So, the muted arisen
Begins to breathe,
Flexes feathers,
and?
It
Slowly starts,
its
Ascent anew.
Ode to Oxalis /
It feels good to plant new things,
tender stems, leaves and
flowers new,
for others with wings
and fast little hearts,
to feed
and drink the dew.
Doing all this,
so they must live.
And, all the while,
I do this,
Tend
and
Beat
and
Live longingly so —
O tiny ox!
Just to be with you.
Solstice Frog /
My world,
Your world.
Spins with the seasons from ocean to lake,
Fringed with desert flats and forest.
My world trembles when it rains, and
Quakes when the rains grow silent.
New mountains rise up in yours
To suck out the sky. The rains run away.
I spy a fly with my little green eye(s) while you
Stare up above like some omnipotent owl;
The earth and the sky are yours!
My domain, ever-shifting, shows nothing but your skin
And stars.
Yet,
Equally cloaked in clouds of dust
I contemplate. And wait.
Two worlds draw together but
As my world inclines upwards
And yours downwards
With a kick,
And a flash -
A glistening green streak!
I’m gone.