The Captors of Courtship
It starts with examining our shores. An elastic shove
could inch the edges out, said those who loved greatest
and with massive breakers. Acrobat and brilliant. Treachery,
steal me another moment, romance and treasure me
with pinch of tambourine and shark guitar. Knowing we are
built on an intimacy of inaccurate moorings, they deepen
these seas, immortalize our fleeting monsoons into everywhere
lavish and habitat. Paralyzed, we quake for their chameleon
message in every inkblot that heaves from its hands sapphire
sparks spelling tender, tremor, seized. Found uttering
and inaudible, we are hanging from our knees. Excavating fire
from slaughter, they salvage inadequate bliss. Aqueduct
over most addictive of upstream fevers, throw me your vest
of life parables, rescue by glass ladder shattering in chest.
Before the Disappearing Act
An affectionate gesture, she asks of him
the way a ship aches. The sea beneath them
shakes up a shovel of tragedy: ephemera,
knowing its poverty in perseverance and felt
of fast beauty. She still sees gold and pharaoh,
not a rain that bears gift of roses-wrung stealth
slung around a pole with dilapidated wanderings.
He’s become to her flesh from a mythical shiver
with his thick mustache and scent of pistachios.
The chorus ahead of him pretends to shatter
the eerie magic stirring in the oratorio:
their voluptuous vocals pouring its lava
down something gloved awful, sovereign, voilà.
Gloves for a Wooden Dance
Once lushly wine, he was suddenly marooned. With just
a steam of lyric always boiling in the larynx, he was lacking
and depleted, gathered crests of new monsoon. Cattycornered
in arrangement with a brightness called aphasia, he rolled deaf
into bereft and cryptic slave. Turned rages into vacancies covalently
while bonding to her inner hazard lanterns in their haze of nightly
beige. He was flush and lusting fluster till he plunged into a star
that was heralding compulsions, extrication plugged with flaws.
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Wearing marionette gloves to pirouette stunts of love, she’s heiress
to an indistinct and changing thing as gorgeous and grotesque as
spherulitic patterns slit with eyes. To desire all that clarity of vision
cut right into raw obsidian destroys, means to die a little more.
Though he wanted, she was gone and wantonly, uncommonly
a thief, with no shadows of an ode. But with dragonfly departure
of a kind who saunters higher till she’s blackened with her blues,
and whose fists will slack unlocking with a roguish scent of ruse.