Wednesday, May 27, 2015

When Breath Goes Home and Sleeps


These fat clouds hang low
O watch out!
They fall on you
They fall onto the deck of your boat
Where I left my last chance

You spitting molten candlewax on my stomach
You singing French ditties outlined by throwing knives
You flossing your white teeth with a long hair
You plucked from a pony’s tail

How fortunate the 21st century quietly winnows
The surface of your mind

Only your keen ear
Especially this day so serenely marshmallowy
Only your ear hears the sad shore
Slip whimpering under water  

Should I now that a sound travels farther than time
Offer an open hand to prove I do not tremble?
Should I say I understand the boredom of leaves
Shifting briefly with the sibilance of a voice?

The water’s just as disturbed as it ever was

Your up-from-under look   
Your naked foot rippling the water of silence

The odor of divinity
Becomes you

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