I’ve decided it’s my armpits
I miss most.
Or maybe that left ankle
that clicked incessantly.
The best of me
is toast.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Fried Plaintains-Celina
She knew that love had found her, shivering scared,
because clandestinely it seized her veins.
Like prodded clams, her heart’s brute clench holds tight.
Their sacred shields only held for so long,
Then gradually their case sighed broad and calm
Accepting bitter-sweet and watery fill.
She’s saturated with the stuff of jewels
Opened her waxy hill and trench of palm
To universe and particle alike.
Driven and fierce, her pearl sought out his ear.
The night he peeled and chopped and scattered bits
Popping and bubbly grease held his response;
From cast-iron, fried plantains were cooled and smiling.
They filled her nostrils with sweet-steam offerings
Presented like a delicate newborn.
because clandestinely it seized her veins.
Like prodded clams, her heart’s brute clench holds tight.
Their sacred shields only held for so long,
Then gradually their case sighed broad and calm
Accepting bitter-sweet and watery fill.
She’s saturated with the stuff of jewels
Opened her waxy hill and trench of palm
To universe and particle alike.
Driven and fierce, her pearl sought out his ear.
The night he peeled and chopped and scattered bits
Popping and bubbly grease held his response;
From cast-iron, fried plantains were cooled and smiling.
They filled her nostrils with sweet-steam offerings
Presented like a delicate newborn.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Blank Verse
Recognition
As I emerge from bracken walls
My long shadow is comforting
It warms the pale, damp, dying light.
A dark piece leads me down the path,
Tempting me to follow slowly.
Eventually it hides behind,
Racing between dark silhouettes,
Fleeing from the open abyss-
Fleeing superfluous freedom.
I pull my thin coat round my self,
Covering my ashen shoulders.
Something sinister closing in...
Moving effortlessly towards...
Following too quickly behind,
Biting, clamoring at my heels,
It has found me and it wants me.
In the open with no control,
Nowhere to hide, nowhere to go
In this bleak, faintly breathing world,
My shadow finds me. It claims me.
As I emerge from bracken walls
My long shadow is comforting
It warms the pale, damp, dying light.
A dark piece leads me down the path,
Tempting me to follow slowly.
Eventually it hides behind,
Racing between dark silhouettes,
Fleeing from the open abyss-
Fleeing superfluous freedom.
I pull my thin coat round my self,
Covering my ashen shoulders.
Something sinister closing in...
Moving effortlessly towards...
Following too quickly behind,
Biting, clamoring at my heels,
It has found me and it wants me.
In the open with no control,
Nowhere to hide, nowhere to go
In this bleak, faintly breathing world,
My shadow finds me. It claims me.
Pantoum
She stalks and prowls deep
In the heart of the forest
A vile, seducing power
Leaking out her golden bulbs
In the heart of the forest
She treads lightly, her evil
Leaking out her golden bulbs
Calling our attention
She treads lightly, her evil-
Nothing but gorgeous nature
Calling our attention,
And she's licking her lips in response
Nothing but gorgeous nature
In the throbbing heart of the forest
And she's licking her lips in response
A vile, seducing power
In the heart of the forest
A vile, seducing power
Leaking out her golden bulbs
In the heart of the forest
She treads lightly, her evil
Leaking out her golden bulbs
Calling our attention
She treads lightly, her evil-
Nothing but gorgeous nature
Calling our attention,
And she's licking her lips in response
Nothing but gorgeous nature
In the throbbing heart of the forest
And she's licking her lips in response
A vile, seducing power
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