A dirt-brown bird with fidgets cracks its joke,
like a cocklebur. Eyeing the heights,
she ponders a dozen ways to leave,
cradles a she-cone, each small wing
hopeful as any waving hand.
Next Breath, Best Breath
For starters, don’t call it a cage,
corralling the breath. Savvy fingertips
mutely Braille two dozen ribs,
each commandeering its own space
24–7, salaaming and shifting,
then rising. Selah-h-h-h . . .
Next, re-envision those lungs as an inner atlas:
one hundred routes
funneling
into branch lines,
cloverleafs,
cul de sacs.
Wild as papyrus, they might be
a psalter. A Rorschach. A centerfold.
Or call them dual panniers
flanking a breastbone,
an albino koi kissing a mirror,
all lips and flared silk.
Now, boneless as a cat at rest,
inhabit that next inhale, discerning
how spacious a backbone can be,
freeing shoulders to roll, the head to loll
and lift, floating into place: the body
aligned, alight, a home for the holy.
Blue as Devotion
Some love this world like a secret,
a promise, a sacred tease:
500 shades of blue—sea glass or sky,
sapphire, jade, night. Cool hues
play the rogue, retreat from our squint
while come-hithering, luminous
as the quiet splice of shadows and twilight,
fickle as evening tide’s invocation
and benediction.
How many ways can one soul taste
what perfumes the mind,
be it nutmeg, narcissus, rain?
Scent, you are memory’s journey mate.
Time frays, like next week’s vapor trail,
the past unspools, and earth lovers
pause, gazing upward.
Jealous
Morning, with your pillowed hands
twisting over the bed, do you envy
human desire, its midnight hinge,
covet our slack-jawed alpha waves
morphing to REM and then
a prance of neurons, an in-burst
of the invisible? All those covert
sleep spindles slowing the heart,
cooling the body—yes, we are
lapped ‘round with rest: one delta
astride a deepening river, one dream
richer than silt.
Poor Great Ante Meridiem!
Another graveyard shift, the looping,
half-world commute—no wonder
you snap the shade on its roller,
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