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"Dream Bug"



Hour glass 
rainbows sparkling
crystal grainy rapids
sliding intrepidly through life’s fingers

their coloured sands speak in tones
they are obtuse and vapid 
like snowflakes they fall 
confetti on my hands

Writing you 
between there
and here again
a feckless court jester 

fearless sometimes 
walking handstands
painting portraits 
in pedantic rhyme

then a page stained,
you're thumb-licked and turning
metaphors gliding ghosting 
a snail trail planchette

words miss spelled
they are moulting 
like white feathers from cooing doves
we are back in grades of one

singled out on school parade 
while the band plays on
we are all caught 
like grounded gefilte fish in class

when the saints 
go marching in
we’re stopped
for covert mingling
 
In the office a Nosferatu principal
ignores the grief 
behind his two spectacles
two sets of hands are requested straight
knuckles down and held out

the bamboo cane
coaxed no passing
secrets out, 
automata face
scream time put on delay

the clock to midnight 
on his crypt's wall, hidden
strikes still a braille mind 
doesn't once drop the ball

it smiles ruthfully
dialling up the forbidden
chemistry of tears, 
a juxtoposition
from the internal well

My opal sky suspended
heaving dreams falling slow mo
through foggy clouds
are breathed in like lavender rain

antiseptic are all
our polished stories
rehearsed repetitively 
then delayed and side courted

tennis left hand
lucid inarticulate 
backhanded 
Love all 

candy hearted 
is a fresh game 
pulled swiftly 
from a side pocket

refuting singing flutes 
whistling and caressed
by a tongue flirtatiously wetting lips
a regular, pulsating change of pitch

a romantic vibrato 
recalled
he calls me 
a witch

Scent of a woman
once je t'adore
now her true essence leaking
their personalities mirror switched

bloodied and cut
pieces of peace
stolen by a foolish matador
she’s holding open the exit door

Dream Bug
walks across a
marked and sullied page
lines bleeding right

Melting
dissolved 
to the far corner

lid sealed 
in a glass jar
left-brained

Dream Bug

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
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