life, love, and cycles, countless goes around
perfect sets, not alike, but complementary
collide, exchange matter
spread the word from up on high
Morse tattooed on the grooves
tic-tok tapped on the crests

reverberation echoes from deep in the well
eventually come around to a new way of thinking
but mismatched like your wholly socks

offer odd translations from within
worn on the outside, like a
backwards and inside out
space suit

you could have said you just wanted to be alone
without dressing yourself in styrofoam
that stuff never bio-degrades
now you are stuck immovable
forever aloof; but oh-so heroic
starstruck argonauts will write
poems about you

[Bared Golden Grasses]

bared golden grasses
prairie left over stubble
promises in saffron

Lip of Oblivion

lip of oblivion
poked in the ribs
forced to blow
raspberries; return
the joy it consumed

Affection Abbreviated

affection
abbreviated
with bars, silence
haunted by ghosts

attachment
avoidance
love's purgatory

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