Monster Trees

Monster Trees Monster trees reaching down through insane skies like spiders, They see something coming in the green benign stretches, We are the onion ring bearers wearing dark-day secrets. We know what happens when bearded eyes shut tight, When the dead wave from hearses designed for blind drivers, As the hatchet girls crawl into the blast barges of mindless ropery, Monster trees with long tentacled arms scoop up the night cats. They reach for berries made of balsa wood and Melba toast; They reach down from far distances seizing innocent souls crawling, These ghost trees, floating as life clouds, through memory and time; Through deserted forgotten neighborhoods with skeleton trellises. We are the lettuce turners, the meat shredders, with raised hopeful fists. Wearing chiffon camisoles made with Melba toast and dark-day secrets, The hatchet girls raise lapping glasses of mad rum to the blast barges.