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

Dancing Crippled

Insects look like birds from my horizon
And break-lights like inevitable accidents
Bumper to bumper destruction in this enhanced, rear-view vision

Waiting for life to pound you out of me
Years of pushing, expelling, watching it, like a slow, bloody birthing delivery
Indestructible chord of continually regarding you
Lost in your silent chaos

Its all a game
Circumstance you deal your winning hand
You still don't stand a chance in breaking me
Fellows' deficient romance they come and go yet have no effect on me
Dropping money left and right
Empty all I have on worn, exiled passage nuisance
Blue collar well traveled vagrant princess
She has no talent at all
Only the art of spotting the genius, Jesus among the multitude, like a child

Laugh along with the Celestial Jokesmith
He's the funniest Being I ever wrestled
Walk away limping and crippled
I thought the paralyzed were supposed to be dancing?
A giggle before the howling laughter
Shimmy in this murkiness

Hunter's Tapestry

You momentarily bequeathed your body
Left your room, far-removed city
Graced me with your tarriance
Inside my recent morning dream
I still see it, recall lovingly stroke it with my memory
Like prayer beads incanting

Out of the blue abyss
Scale walls of cosmic coral, space and time anemone
To be with me
Lean over while I sit astounded, panting
Intentional timing tempt me
Your long torso hanging over like a hunter's tapestry
Upside down countenance interlacing like tree branches
Necessary kiss
Lightening consciousness, light up our afternoon volition aurora
Return me my voice of solar chariots
Options are the currency of choice
Your seeking out this fusion released my silence
Partially free, help unslave me
From this illusion of luminous intimacy

I've been devoid of poetry
Lost inspiration, flood rains white water gutters drown out everything
Rainbow omen enter my dream like a prophetic mystery
The Sun after the Flood
Your being a cosmic indicator directing me
Compass star map at my caressing fingertips

At the end I elect to leave you cold in space, the dove from Noah's old hand
Orbit some other star
Finish fresh before we started, I'm all intact and growing
Smell imminent defeat wasted battles in the skies
Turn around my posse caravan in the dark after midnight
Night winds cover my tracks
Return to present moment dawn oasis

Ripe dates drop like slow succulent raindrops in the shadow of my missing you
The outer skin cooked by continental growing desert suns
The driest of dune sandstorms, the color of your hair in my tent
Only increase the inner flesh natural sugar sweetness enclosed
In my mouth's greedy voraciousness
Relieve my thirst in your satiety

I've freely forgiven
Return to me centuries later
As first choice be renewed
My tiger pride unlocks mutual eminence, time falls off like shackles