Tag: art
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Long evening walk
Romantic be a reach, not quite stroll along the beach Under a peach sky, but I reach over and make sure to catch your eye Sapphire but wearing the sun’s fire, all my desires in catalogue Retired chief justice how I take a long walk that eve Eager to be out and about, weaving between…
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No room at the inn of my bunker
All the things I’ve seen, how I’m not mad a Marian miracle Thank Granddad for my grandiloquence, flick off the spent ash Move my head like I was avoiding the cast of a slick peltast I might be dyslexic but those ominous letters spell disaster Get out of here now and not after, provisions loaded…
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Visions of dead people
Flight instinct kicking in Stick around, source within Skin thin Bones seen beneath Inching obscenely In the fingers, at the cheek Even during sleep Creaking, squeaky greasing easy The wheel of a bike careening Spinning long after a car hit its driver head on Haunted by dead cyclists, suffering infringements At vision’s fringes, their boldness…
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River rider who neither
Slim sliver, arrested development Silver as a slim elver slithering upriver Bound for a rendezvous with the salmon Salar Ballard how I protest the charge that I’m not a Child of God In a rush, shoal don’t slow, eager to reach the nursery Like a breached levee how quickly they uplevel Starting tiny but by…