I stare at an
empty binder clip, metal prongs bent back
Kinetic energy
pressed awaiting the black plastic maw
To pinch printed
importance
Between the
scanned images, peeked then shredded
Store the view for
the proper allocation of seconds
To view again
followed by descent into the labyrinth
Of electronic folder
cabinets for a reusable appliance
To watch like a
proud progenitor accustomed with release
I held a family
once; the footprint canister is on my desk
I glance at the
skewed printed letters of my daughter’s nine
Character name
completing as many years this past weekend
My mother gave her
a book with an assigned task by the publishing company
To several of the
intermixed pages; one requested, draw your family
A girl holding
hands with, a woman, and a man in a triad words,
Daddy that is you;
she feels the need to specify, I know why
She says to draw
more gets complicated; she likes the idea of three
Moments stack like
shattered glass found in sandwiches
Years later a man
attempts to eat innocuously, I keep finding shards in my meals
The familiar slice
across tongue flesh, cells bent upward to press the tip to the palate
A tributary splits
seeping blood, saliva coats futile and morose
A dead interloper
zombie-hobo-bead stashed in a sensorial subcomponent
Extends its neck
to cackle silently, the vapid cheeks and carved out eye sockets
Mirror in an image
of an impression that this experience is a bizarre reflection
Of time tangent in
a prior garden of forking volition and now segregated
With the exception
of these bits of shrapnel like marital kidney stones
Showing up in
shrimp pasta or red beans or storybooks and stuffed animals
Birthday candles lit
with cindering melting texture of skin coagulated into fluid
Hot welded metal
and formed commercial plastic
Once a tool to
hold this child and now off
Into this replay
dancing to be looked back in computers
Everything printed
is in boxes as the realtors keep coming like Odysseus and the winds
I called the Cyclops
love and the anger curses in my illusions of sustenance
Home has a taste
like love and this tongue is stigmata of senselessness
The buds are
pruned and reminded in cycles of ignominy and torpid despondency
To truncate growth
as the season is not prepared the link-shackles are still too frequent
Brushing taste,
scraping molars and bicuspids with the urge to chew
Like battling a
reflex action like resisting submission to a hiccup
The spasm is
calling like a howl to a lycanthrope to transform into a being recollecting
emotions
Castigated into
the street taverns of inebriated lunacy
Oh love like
moonlight’s flickering flavor I was born to stream your smack!
Placebo sold like
baby powder in a baggie tingling, temporary, and tenacious!
The nights beckon
me to foolish recycling that men were not victims of hunger
Twenty-two years and
the siren leeches a craggy suction
The mountain
crumbles in human weakness to be re-imbibed
Like unction of
debilitating forgetfulness, as there is no hope of washing the thoughts
Only of wearing
down the holder of the memories one grain at a time
Until the lobotomy
for the numb-callus is completed; the stabbing shred appears
As cotton-noodle,
silken-rice, and velvet-bone digestible
So that a body can
let go of the blacksmith’s replicating form to see the mutable
Appearing in the
watering waistlines trickling in foreign lands
For Penelope has
taken bed long ago knowing she set her husband to war
Praying for his
tardiness drifting into a foggy grip of voices
That these
moon-lit conversations were acceptance twisting like wrought devices
Used once to grip
a man, now to release him into a pasture of his demons
So that when he is
devoured the cause is so distant from the monster’s jaws
The flesh in the
teeth can look like cud-suicide
Gnashed melancholy
spew sprinkled with dashed time so that all one could ever
Use to connect the
two parties could be pearls of shrapnel ideas
That were truly
only ever known by the duo, and now one is deceased and the other buried
So that the third
never is allowed to taste the amuse bouche resting
Like a lost recipe
in the mind of a madman, Howl!!!Wofly, howl!!!
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