The summer labored against an agonized yawn,
and through its sweated lips
withdrew a round fruit.
It is too big to ask how it had ever fit.
She collapses and withers, her waters
vaporing skyward, no afterbirth brought forth.
I take the fruit.
It is fresh and red and promising,
and a great parallel to the shriveled season
that lays quieted in her phoenix-ashes.
It is warm.
You lay in it, in all your babied splendor,
you curl in its yolky folds.
I am the new mother, with a feverish pride,
the blood-beaded brow.
I bite, bite the crisp stone, and drink you in.
I feel your bones, my bones
and all your veins take hold.
Your eyes unfurl as ship sails, over mine.
Categories:
yolky, birthday, creation, love, relationship,
Form: I do not know?
perching on the treetops tonight,
like an all-seeing, one-eyed owl,
a newly awakened yolky moon
beams down my town road
by the river, near the sea;
its silvery glow quietly quiets
anxieties of this hurt heart,
turns everything lustrous,
magical, as I pick my way
by the river, near the sea;
each stone, thicket and tree
is transformed into a friendly
shimmering shadow savoring
the solace and serenity here
by the river, near the sea;
as breeze from rising salt tide
whiffs briny, marshy scents
and, with me whistling low,
a bird serenades that moon
by the river, near the sea !
Categories:
yolky, happiness, hope, nature,
Form: Tail-rhyme