You gave me hope, relief from
Winter’s frigid grip
your warming smile, if rare, a
welcome haven.
But rain, snow – then bright sunny sky;
Mother Nature’s hormones gone awry –
make up your God-Damned Mind.
Your thirty-one day flow left me
laughing, sweating
then poured a chill down my spine.
You were born from a torn alliance
between February and April; can't
commit to one without forsaking the other
and I, the edge of a that frozen blade –
you slipped off whenever it got confusing . . .
you’re unbalanced by nature, I know that now.
I lied to myself that I could use you,
a stepping stone,
a more gentle hardship between seasons;
the promise of glorious springs, fulfilled.
But I was the fool stepped on,
mud-soaked and cut by broken ice,
flooded by muck and gray misty days;
clouding my judgment – a penumbrous joy.
How could I have been so stupid, and you
so, so cold –
where are the flowers you promised me?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
Knitting Circle
Wrinkled grey woman
Wanes even as she waxes, time
As balls of yarn, un-
Ravels as she
Spins.
Stories, multiple histories...
Crystal star-collared calico in
a patch of sun poised;
Ready to - Pounce – while one
Gold-rimmed eye languidly
Blinks.
The tail snaps;
Motion-blurred furplosion
paws and claws and -
The balls roll once again.
Somewhere a cat
Scratches in his böx -
and doesn't.
Possibly, a super-
Centenarian and her
Precious, have skeined
something revolving around
cosmology.
Wanes even as she waxes, time
As balls of yarn, un-
Ravels as she
Spins.
Stories, multiple histories...
Crystal star-collared calico in
a patch of sun poised;
Ready to - Pounce – while one
Gold-rimmed eye languidly
Blinks.
The tail snaps;
Motion-blurred furplosion
paws and claws and -
The balls roll once again.
Somewhere a cat
Scratches in his böx -
and doesn't.
Possibly, a super-
Centenarian and her
Precious, have skeined
something revolving around
cosmology.
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