Euphoriants Poems | Examples

Playing With Words Under Fire

i faint
tiles fall on me
bury me

words like star-floaters
i pop
but less shaky hands sizzle-scintillate

those hands arrange and rearrange
bittersweet flowers and baby’s breath

the rapid eye movement of a painter’s gun
passionate splotches
cover me before i blink sos

one serendipitous word
sensational bonus of fifty points
neon sign euphoriants — i lift

my opponent cheats
teases my tiles
through skeletal-fingers
rattling me

places them in a line
flicks her pointer
and the dominoes
tumble and turn

the dictionary and thesaurus bluster
until they lose their breath
my face burns

9/29/2018
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