Wednesday, January 20, 2016

O Panic of Mushrooms in May!

            
Amiability is your quiet cough
Warm when secondhand light finds you
Dreaming chirpy as a cell phone

You see little roses
Parting garish lips
Inscrutably small monkeys
Fleeing sunset
And holy cow
You see a desiccated crowd
Of grumpy old Samuel Becketts
Crowing “Auld Lang Syne”

Three vermilion crows are watching you
Paddle turbulent green currents
Your tiny boat just a vague assertion
Small and quaintly personal

Goo-goo gah-gah
Must mean something
A feeling no longer
Sufficiently decipherable
Nor entirely absent

O forbidden inclination!

Any minute now the plural
Eyes of hysterical river gods will open
The door of your hands
Roughened by what kisses

This historical wind grinning now
Nervously at the window
Wants you even more than I
To be dreaming careless green taffeta
A long silk-sleepy dress you could wear
Waiting at the gate with Mallarmé
Smiling shyly by the shore

Well maybe just a little bit

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