Please be cool, I’m hungry, impatient to taste you.
Category: poetry
POPO 2021 Day 15
When she sinks deep in green she becomes a goddess.
dVerse — OLN Live — Silken Threads Hold
Silken threads holdtight, sticky lies, promisedforevers, extremesdesigned to die, sigh.Round seeds, sharp edgesTextured mirage, hybridized bait beckons,“plant me!” (wrong zone) “plant me!” (no germ, no growth.) Silken threads holdseasoned seeds of promise;to stay, hibernate,safe in winter dreams —or fly with zephyrstraverse oceans, deserts, to parts unknown.To alight, be consumed, dispersed — to grow. What the…
POPO 2021 Day 14
Sweet party!I’m humbledas the Guestof Honor.
POPO 2021 Day 13
No matter how fragrant the package, it still stinks.
dVerse — Poetics — Carnivale
Curled in her warm arms, rocking as James Darren* sings on the radio. At bedtime, she tells me stories of faeries and ogres while rubbing my aching legs. I’m dropped at another stranger’s tent. Ignored, uneasy sleep in an empty corner until her midnight voice returns, slurs, “Let’s go.” Dad will never know. Carnies’ front…
POPO 2021 Day 12
Mute witness past shatters to open our cages.
