Hordes of tiny fish
Nibble at the strands
Dark marmalade feathers
Undulating seductively
Calling all fish
To belong, be part of
A hidden totality
Under the glazed sunlight
Hazarding the shadow
Squeezing through the murk
Feeding our way in
Imagining light
Believing in everything
Eating the darkness
Mouthing the mass
Chemical collages draping the shape
Of a rusting onion
With nothing to say, but
Enjoy your meal.
Hazarding a guess
he holds onto his inner rake
like a shining crucifix
raking leaves in his Autumn years
he considers poetry
keeping bees in their hives
is just as sweet as honey
a joy to convert
his favourite hidden hobby
he considers french slang
expensive bonbon candy,
then, next page, he reads:
"les bijoux indiscrets"
ravenous,
he psalms within the margin
Candide Diderot. '24
Tides
of humanity
forced to flee;
hazarding all upon the
sea
Consider
the refugee:
Reduced to flee;
hazarding all upon the…
See?
I want to
Hang up in the sky until
the next rain cloud tinges in my eye
because I feel a force from you
I can't deny!
That provocation, not a finished moor
does caution me, and then exhibits store
like grace abiding from some faith before
forgotten, til its reason merits pour ~
So harboring in love's depth, do view the sky
like swinging from some cliff's imperiled ride
and feel some widening toward faith's consign.
~ I love you, and still find the reason mine!
If I could just ~
turn you around, like some fountain of extol
to see your hazarding, to face its toll
and let thought shine, so downward as to scroll
eternal life combing with soft knoll ~
That thee
would think ~ what bliss
the angels dole.
But it is down to earth, I know your soul,
confiding trust, I pray to sense my role.
I'd like to ~
set you on a straighter path,
nor intercede, but laugh at my impair in your behalf
with witty culling, heal your staff
so all appalling, dwindles last!
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