Briny Bounty

Raiders and the curious pursue to poach what
Barren buccaneers return empty handed

Glowing gold arteries, silver veins, self-composure reigns

Underwater amethyst heart caves burning lava cools into hidden seas

Hissing out holy islands and shrouded sunken grotto silience

I wait on you like an entombed trove of treasure

Pleasures you’d excavate and never regret to uncover

The luminescent veil that separates one another

Once a lost fisherman lost his breath drowned like a bloated whale

Then a boy child, little seahorse, his father’s favorite

Waded in with the undertow, like an accident

Peeked at pearls inside an air pocket

And carried back a valorous gift to mother

Tincture On A Shelf

You didn’t judge farewells all too well

Escaping duty without an explanation

When I ended us as clear as January ice

As final as hypothermic oblivion

You dropped off my earth like a mammoth in the new sun era

A faceless man without a map

Crippled by riddles hanging heavy

Over your horned, hooded brow

The mark of Cain, an air of dread

You’ll not ever acquire armistice under your flag

Your crowning breath will exhale a cutting, stale regret

Like a swelling carcinoma it nourishes off you now

Mushrooming, consuming your soul

While alone mothering our daughter

I breathe mercy while you slumber

Make amends, pick the balsam leaves

Ask forgiveness, apply the evergreen compress

In my home behind the kitchen hearth is a chamber

An ancient apothecary

Full of herbs gathered and dried, distilled since girlhood

Just for your signal of distress

There’s a tincture in a box on a shelf

Overlaid with dust and cobwebs

September Bride

Herald me like a harvest moon before a typhoon

Snatch a surge of gallantry, yielding the preparation

In a barbarian language rain down rehearsed words

Mutual attraction gathering fruition

September satellite tide infatuation, light the lantern

Tender devotion in the countryside

Common weed or rarest rhododendron?

My mother love so perfectly animal

Imperfectly human, ruined

All devotees in my eyes long ago

Does true love at first sight crop up anymore?

Drop your sickle, bathe back to me

Inhale river water lucid dream fortuity

Swallow your intoxicant and march out the valley

The autumn tide is favorable

For a September wedding fitzcarraldo

Refuse to gamble away the occasion

Silence the doubts of your judgment

Your friends’ logical excuses

Obliterate age and dismiss difference of culture

Or any other external circumstance

Be attendant to this moment

Rendezvous in the celestial elevator

Collect me for a light refreshment and anywhere

Receive me in the hurricane cockcrow

Typhoon Chrysalism

Antiquated autumn moon they’ll be no pyres for you tonight

No burning flesh altschmerg sacrifice

Drunken, smoking family circles retreat from your skies

Your seasonal rotting fruit eaten without satisfaction

The rabbit moon pestle pounds out tempest medicines

Storm elixirs dampen out all healing weekend moxibustion

The people’s summer ghost month prayers

Were deemed inadequate

Elderly folk forgot the exact time and directions to say their incantations

Google search forgotten rites and canticles akin to strangers

Hungry ancestors in their malcontent cry purgatory tears to form a cyclone

Whole clans weep together joining forces over the Pacific

They’re specific intention to deconstruct familiar traditions

Luckily for my neighbors my disbelief spared my whole prefecture

An alien continental rainbow hangs over my household like an amulet

Regardless of the multitude’s avowal

My nodus, the eye of the hurricane is this chrysalism apartment

Asteroid

Lay mother naked on the sofa

Open window, howling typhoon winds fill me

Quasar core empty vacuum

Don’t rise for fallen curtains blown to the floor

Acclimated to the hyperborean emptiness

Collapsar implosion on the inside

Cold dark moon damacloid

I reflect light for no one

Neutron star composed of mare deserts

I’m not the world or a planet

No Virgo clusters eclipsed in my throat

Uninhabitable scarp cliffs seen through a telescope

Space gravel orbit

I woo a SETI mission

Preeminent historic landing

One cosmonaut championed the ice caverns

Vibrate the aria of cosmic conception

Accretion disks transferred between two galactic nuclei

Render goodbye before we claim hello

Marvel in compressed moments

Qualified traveler from afar

 I fabricate you a surpassing man than you merit