Wednesday, March 20, 2013

begging the bees

                    quivering arrows inch → → → → → → across the cage. caterpillars toeing the
lime rimmed                     salt encrusted              Oh                     of the
goblet.

drop the gauntlet. they have less aim than we
                                                                   have purpose for
                                                                                               maiming
                                                                        saving graces
                                                                                             for before

the Dinner's folded napkin dabs the corners of
                                                                   drunk                   mothereyes

the replicated disguise                 that licks the spine

of every Encyclopedia Britannica from one

                                                                 to

                                                                       thirty-two.
crunching molars between numbers,
                                                     allow context to define
the
       angle
                 of
           the
sexton

                                                                 the
                                                                point
                                                          of the piston
                 imagine
                     the pain
                         of plant stamen

so                         much stamina                          in pollen.
 
                in vitro growing
                                                                                       but no showing

                                                                     how for we foul
                 f a l l
                         i n g                                                                          before pleading


                                  for Korsakov and his bees.

Monday, February 18, 2013

consumere


i am consumed.
sucked into. pulled under. plastic over
ducked lips, eyelashes beneath
leather heals, knelt beside the trough that is
getting emptier because I
drink and drink and drink.

you are squandered.
knit together with floss that was
pre-clipped for use before
dentist’s offices smelled like
insurance’s breath.

we are wasted,
not wasting away.
crumbling like the kneecaps
of dali’s elephants eroded
by the dynamic duo of
decades and disappointment.

no, we are wasted
in the city licking peanutbutter
from where it fell
on pavement because that is
the pattern we’ve created.

dents that clothes leave on skin
mean that maps are worth more than mountains,
plastic more than gold,
means that angles are better than spirals better than
angels better than dirt.

we have wasted circles
into squares stacked like
cartoon caterpillars, curious
to see how many bites you can
take out of the sky
before the moon notices.