Ruminate

Erupting voices
Horrors of the addled brain
Quakes in the cold dark

33

Thirty three reasons
to walk away from this now
then, you chose to smile

Marionettes

Dancing on spindles
Harlots ... all flavors and size
Lips of red wine joy

Algernon St. John-Smyth

Smiles kicking urchins
Felted beaver fur top hat
Upper class ... bully!

Soul

I am not this shell
This husk that sustains my life
I hold more promise

Nectar

Excrete the gods milk
Sweet ambrosia trickles free
Dance on happy tongue

Stolen Moment

Slipped to serendip
No friction dereliction
Shoulders gripped to grind

Moonlit Silhouette

Those curves of yours twist
thin Italian mountain roads
my pistons popping

Lakeshore Morning

Egrets sail along
Wing tips skim cool lake water
Sunrise becomes her

Discussions on the Small of Your Back

Sensual touch warms
Lips purse; tender, inviting
Slip to gentle night

Moving On

Sacred cows aflame
Inevitable rebel
Another bridge burned

Shell

She abandons hope
Hears little, feels less, sobbing
He should have been more

Coal

Lungs stuffed packed jet black
Years picking drilling dying
None will make diamonds

Visitor

Sad uncle depressed
Trapped under hooch bottle cork
Abyss bottom reached

Tangles

Quaked out of her boots
Fury raged toward fast demise
Thank god for hair pins!

Ligne Maginot

Old bones groan thrown 'round
Youth still wasted on the young
Wins one like a boss

Tween

Elephant sits still
'Tween two chairs in the small room
Asking who'll blink first

Twirl

A space far from home
Clatter and clack the steep heels
Time stolen to dance

Yawning

So blows Autumn wind
Away the golden slivers
Lake yawning new snow

Sizzle

Heels four stories thin
Click click click to velvet rope
"Hello, Big Fella."