Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Ocean Has Fled from Our Faces


Nevermind what the forecast said,
your mother knows better
She read it in the furnace fuel

Behavior indicates
strong clouds
all trying to congregate
one mass
dissipating

Ocean has fled from our faces
and this is nothing new
under our tugboat satellites

Principles of magnetry for a cell,
no different for a star
Storyline to shoreline

I have a dead man's bag
inside imploded parachutes
suffocated
a little hot air
and a handle would help
but the balloons lost
their baskets
and the loom lacks a weave

A calla lily earns her last chance
rarely hails her hand
her clear hair recedes the rain

A lean candle nearly dead
lain against a rail

Under all this land yells a creed
that chains itself to Monday

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