Aug - 2020

Why Does The Ocean Calm Us?


Curled knees, a

Faithful sea dog

Lapping feet,

Comfort foam

Hugs toes. We

Come for sand 


Out like seasons

Back like a cat

Sin wave,

Or just waves;

Welcome

and goodbye 


Slow wink sun

Looks out

Indifferent 


Azures umbras emerald 

Deep wet. Or

Almost black, like 

When red 

Diaphanous eyes

Close at midday. Later,

The moon

On water;

Poems ephemeral

Light

Kisses

From full

Faced sun


Or murky 

As eye

Crud


Stand with damp

Toe nails 

Watching nothing, 

When really watching 

Everything.  


It’s 

Nature’s static 

Chanel 

Always moving in

Arrhythmic rolls

Cardiac familiar 

Woosh—my right ventricle 


But

Curse death hooks

Disrespectful undertaking

Let the beasts

Sleep

Let the creatures

Be


Such we

Can chart 

High and

Low

But always know

Of the calm


And still

We throw guillotine nets,

Puke micro death 

Rubbish

Keep hairs over 

Splitting atoms. And 

never once asked:


Does the ocean want us anyway?



En Gard

 

 Butt  butt butt 

much like

 putt   putt putt

 

You flew to float 

          than swam

with Weird Fishes 

             picked  over by the worms 

      nibbling at your toes 

 

And little             seahorses  pulling 

   at your                   sheets

riding into               dreams 

   of an  underwater Queen

    with   infinity   breath 

       and sun set     hair 

 

 I was born under    black cats

        Good Black Friday

       Spooky   signs    (of)

   a little Houdini 

    Magyar    magic 

 

And I like, the porcupine 

           bits    of most things 

                     Squeaky hinges 

       Cock eyed  bats 

           & the gaps  around 

     apostrophes  

Tell me  

            of your 

                 squinty eye visions

And

   upside downside 

                Cheshire Cat grins

 

   Spoke me of large juicy berries 

      Phobias of balloons 


Whet the page with

              loose-est

word drool

 Bitten corners 

        and 

fret buzz


-


The child next door 

Has a cap gun


Bang!

Bang!

Bang!


I can hear them go off 



KS B31


  Swords

    Fjords


  Such 

  Strange 

     Words 


Like numerals:

One

&

Three

)))


Kind of bent shapes


Like little 

     Sticks 


Of leaning in

///

Or 

   out \\\


Just ahead of the present /

  /

Tippy toes back

Head for/word


 Numerical arms 

  Swinging around

     Ticking 


Or hot thin salty potato chips

         And curves of winding roads


Spring’s

  Bell   will  well

    rings 

          soon



(S)words

    Fjords


Such funny 

             words



Just like strange  


               People.

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