Sunday, May 30, 2010

Orphans

Orphans

I

When Yester-night, someone died
Even sadness wept her sadness blind.

II

We watched from the crack in the door
In the back,
As sadness paced the floor,
Knuckles in mouth. Horrified and helpless,
Glancing back and forth,
Eyes sagging beneath the ocean weight of unshed tears,
Sadness dressed in black,
Dragged its heavy soul in here
And lived for thirteen years in seven years of bad luck.

III

Sadness lost us all last night.
The roof let the moon inside,
The pipes burst, the wood split, the beams snapped,
The pillars fell, the earth quaked,
And we were all gone.
Yet the sadness lives on in all of us,

Even now when we’re torn,
What's left of us are the saddest bits,
So everyday we mourn.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Giant Squid Steals the Light of Day

The brilliant flaming Octopus.
Gradually gathers-in its flame,

Its flashing pointy tentacles
Follow suit in orange trail
And so it steals this loan-ly light

From the cloudless big blue sky,
It squirts amounts of blackish ink
So as to hide.

And soon the world is left obscure,
An indiscriminate lump of coal,
Of smooth and empty darkness.

The massive cloud of ink rolls out
And shapes and outlines, sputter and vanish.

Transfixed in trees,
Birds make not a sound.


The sun has set.
'Tis time to prepare.
The Thief is abroad
And out of his lair.


Collect Call from Deep Space


we're stuck in this mad wild widow's wild hair
Stuck on a strand, stranded, like a stray louse
Looking for a scalp, we're looking for a house
Maybe we are perched on a lash of her eye
And all we see is madness in our red veined sky
And a large black hole sticks out of the white
And we frown unimpressed at this unimpressive sight
Or maybe we're in one of her pits or the pubes
Maybe we're inside her stuck on them fallopian tubes.