Escape Attempts (poetry)

Escape Attempts

 

 

When it is discovered

that I had a crystal skull

there will be parades

some burros with accordions

boll weevils may undermine

my canonization

questioning

my pre-lapsarian atavism

the webbed practice

poetry that can swim

an effort to get past

the past

 

Ultramarine Mary

Our Lady of the Seas

Seen against

the vanta black night

The thrilling colors

of darkness

 

 

 

 

the night flow

is tremendous

unavoidable with days so brief

inevitably I'm swept out on it

to oppose the system of the stars is futility

storm door banging in the wind

unoccupied houses with the TV on

showing footage of the winds on fritzy screens

children in R.E.M. state vibrate imperceptibly

distant highway not far enough away

silence approached by snow

hibernation in glacial caves

the cave bear eats you to stay warm

store fuel for long months in the void

barefoot in the chilly green grass I see a trail

bird populations empty my behind into the sky

a scrim of clouds outlined in winter sunlight

an ovation of estuarial trees

 

the one I searched for isn't here any longer

so one searches for the one that's left

one continuous field of the mind's movement

with conflicting and confluent patterns

the opened envelope exists

in a universe of love and darkness

epistle from the limitless

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fake white Xmas tree

looks out of the police station

as lonely as me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Year's Day

 

I've had enough of this day

for a lifetime

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So-called evangelicals

weaponize so-called

Christianity

 

 

 

 

 

Mew and mewl are synonyms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes in English

(after Arthur Rimbaud in U.K.)

 

Wiretap

 

Wish fulfillment

The winsome wino wore winkle-pickers

and a winning wing collar was wired

for the witching hour wisecrack

a wise guy with wind and wit

wistful well-wishers await his wink

his wisdom a wisp of his wiring

wing-mirror washed with weeping

a wiseacre fakir a witch-doctor

his wintry winnowing wingspan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Observed Today

 

Crab Cove to the Point

 

Gone are the avian multitudes

of November

Coots an new green earth

a prehistoric way of walking

Santa hat with fishing pole

Middle-eastern lady with

german shepherd boyfriend

her thin scarf woven prismatic

a fiber optic veil

Walking woman in her holiday

best destroyed jeans

Airliner overhead despite

government shut down

How do you tell his dog people

that this is a bird sanctuary

a lone gull passes by

handrails into high tide

 Dense gulls cluster over

 remote reed oasis

quietude of the opposite shore

until the next vast flight

 

 

three Chinese walk in a row

with identical dogs at intervals

look like edible Chihuahuas

but may not be

California Xmas kids climb

on the rocky shore

Asian lady in inevitable elf hat

Diving birds fish in three

pop back up in placid water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solstice-

January 2019