The Woman with a Thousand Heads #14
It's like drinking gin
that drinks you back.
She says your name
and it glistens, still moist
from being reborn in her mouth.
It’s like being startled
by a silence that’s always been
there instead of a sudden
loud noise and jumping
into each others arms,
but your arms are now the same
arms in the manner that a Mobius
strip turns two surfaces
that never meet into a single path.
Poet Glen Armstrong
Slash for the Lowlands #8
Mars is now a little closer.
The bubbles that you blew never
popped, and I took Hell for that,
your breath like a floral grenade.
It was as if I’d used the word “she-goat”
repeatedly or replaced
the term with a number of lexemes
that all wore the cruddiest of plastic
Halloween masks, their DayGlo colors
barely designed, their elastic bands
detached to either the left or right.
It was as if I’d done all of this
to defame you and our relationship.
I see now that bubbles take breath hostage,
and words shamelessly beg for sweets.
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Depending on the season, what is most important may not be most relevant. The reveal would have us believe, but belief is a commitment, revelation a rarer animal, a more complex threat.
On Time
Please be on the superficial.
Please be on the fashionable.
Please be on the waterfall.
Please shut the door.
Please be on the public road.
Please be on the head
of a politician.
(Not our leader but that other one,
the one who causes trouble
on the nightly broadcasts.)
If you need to be on Jessica,
please use something.
Enough is enough already.
Grandmother feeds the birds.
Please be on the surface.
In the varnish.
Reflecting.
I swear I have a mind
to celebrate,
but please be on the mindful.
Please be on the hour.
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