Month: February 2023

Living as a broad abroad
For a good time call
On the bathroom wall
Thief, conman, all around scoundrel
Into his arms she fell
Love went international
Living on the streets
But dressing up for company
Anything was possible

He bit into the halibut
That once flashed a sea bottom smile
Then finished all of it
Two eyes on one side
Camouflaging color
The gall of it

Magnifying glass
Dangling from his neck
Bending to the carpet
Unknown worlds pass
Apprehending the culprit
“You little insect”
Something didn’t fit
Caught Red-legged
Spider Wasp

Killed by a sharp left turn
(Was swept under the rug)

Shoe laces and jumps
The runner disappears
Mid stride
To break the tape
Fearless inside a second
Shoe places at once
I reckoned

Informant meet at 9 pm
Back of the restaurant
Will look like someone’s rich aunt
Mile long stems…
Info on a plant
At the dockyard crime scene
Big yellow tulip
And says the accomplice will flip
He was in the circus…
Signing off

The cheering crowd
Full of mad glee
Dancing and thumping
While he tried to take tea
The blossom of the lily milk
In the dark orange
Elbows and frenzied stamping
Over something on the field
Taking liquid to lips unspilled
The sudden shatter slicing mouth
And blood filled throat
Was he about to be killed
Crowd 1 him nothing

That rumbled into The Last Stop theater
No heater
The muffler dangling
Something banging
And he appeared
Smeared with grease
A goose sheared into two
Geese
Oh puhlease
The brat front row
Buzzcut big brow
Who just now
Spat gum at him
His Adam’s apple
Bobbing swallowing razors
Later following
On his bicycle
The chugging, smoking
Old wreck
The kid’s eyes popping
His cheeks puffed and mocking

The book elf
Balanced on the book shelf
Points to the dark space between
Robert’s Rotten Tales and How To Snore Between Dreams
When a hand is poked in
Arm goes up to elbow
Before you fall through expanding darkness
The elf begins to dance
Someone will pull a book out one day perchance.

Wide eyed at the flavour
Sloppy grin and
Chew
Refrigerator
Open
Mouth in motion
Steaming brew
Will anything come of the meeting
But this feeding