What To Do

I know! Let’s kill

the tv and see

what happens

The cold bright

image fades

with a fizzzz

A bomb-blast

of silence spreads

through the room

It’s hard

to look at

each other

Ghostly

noise grows

in my mind

Nerves

hum like

sizzling wires

Does anybody

know any

good jokes?

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Gathering Evidence

We gather under flowers of fireworks,
beneath a big booming array.
BadaBAM! BadaBAM!
Who doesn't love a bouquet?

A silver chrysanthemum spreads overhead,
dissolves in a shower of sparks
and a sudden stuttering powdery
thup! thup! thup!

A hyacinth bursts in their wake,
red florettes spinning on their spots
in the smoky sky, exploding separately:
cap-blast claps applauding the audience.

We're here! And to honor the moment
a champagne daffodil fills the air,
a trumpet of sex, a jet of gold light
pouring froth from its sides with a galloping frap!

Each dollop a frap! that snaps in a splattering blast.
Rejoice! The event is any event.
We huddle in the darkness like thumbprints,
gathering evidence.



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A Breath In The Rain

Six shapes

Almost motionless

In the misty air

(Not raining yet)

We wait

For a morning train

To take us elsewhere

It’s not what we want to do

But there’s not much else to really choose

Do you do it too?

Mornings

Weigh down on me

Like a final sky

(No air up there)

This place

Is home to trouble for

A million other lives

Every time I take a breath in the rain

I feel a shiver running through my veins

Here it comes

Birds burst

Just overhead

Like a sudden bloom

(And then they’re gone)

Good God!

That’s beautiful!

Did you see it too?

Into the sky they go

Maybe it’s not what they want to do

I don’t know

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