As I sat I stared at the teeniest tiniest of hairs which by and by was not so easy for these naked eyes to quantify it was but one single prayer that then as it were by or perhaps with some sort of surprise that I realized that what I had just then surmised could only have been seen slantwise…
Categories:
slantwise, allegory, analogy, animal, anti
Form: Free verse
A spherical fish lenses larger
And smaller with each turn that's swum.
Size defying, the fish upon a plant stand
Towers over a cubically curled cat.
The cat sleeps inside a cardboard box
Among dank fern era smells.
Eye lids arise slantwise
Like through louvers of a shade.
The eyes close once again
As though in slow motion ecstasy.
Whiskers twitch and paws, taking turns,
Knead dreamscape, Siberian turf.
It is a lazy happiness, the cat has,
Swaying nothing but a tail's end.
Centered, the cat has no need
To find a fourth flap out.
But the bulgy eyed fish is held
By the weight of water and of glass. (7/16/22)
Categories:
slantwise, allegory, animal, science, surreal,
Form: Free verse
By Buffs and shrugs experts revive the dead
detect means of two worlds how spread
they call the being extraterrestrial living
looking for water in space with misgiving
Depict art sign's formed by ancient designs
laid there for centuries among pines
having textural and deep meaning
still thou scientists search by screening
Ancient Paradise i call for thou art skewed slantwise
an sought to show us a future advice
tho' myth still exists in thee
from about there i buy my fee
Categories:
slantwise, history,
Form: Elegy