Pentimento

Careful consideration shows

traces of underdrawing.

Off-center.  Awkward.

Seed pearl tears dot the canvas.

Then a change of mind: 

brushed over with another venue.

Layers of new whitewash

show the transparency of my skin.

I look taller.  Three-dimensional.

Someone stands close behind.

There are curtainless windows.
Plenty of blue, because it is now.

tk/October 2014


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Self-portrait by Vivian Maier 

Spherical

There is exotic in repeating,

pouring  in a censer.

Swinging lasso, carefree.

It floats circular, heady, hypnotic;

pollinating everything open in my wake.  

Ritual of joy.

This time, I am brave enough

to leave nothing unsaid;  the whole

makes cosmic sense. 

Orbed.  Embraceable.

I am compelled to whisper it in round. 

A chant.  Maybe a prayer,
on the brink of a spell. 

tk/August 2014

Hypnotic read by R.A.D. Stainforth ...

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The Morn's Night

An hour ago,

I was a child of fables,

pokeweed.

A tongue roller,

chewer of grass―

I could graft an oak from a twig.

Meanwhile, it's another o'clock;

acorns drop from grown trees.

The moon bellows baritone;

omits the chorus,

replaces it with zees.

Vitruvian sweetness finds me,

springing spreadeagle―

wheel of honeysuckle.

I forget sleep;

shake out the pillowcase,

wrap it around my head

for a babushka―

sound a klaxon,

hail a hackney carriage.

Get to Falkirk.

tk/June 2014


R.A.D. Stainforth adds a bit of magic... 

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*A Game of Patience, 1937 by Meredith Frampton 

Dust

O! claustrophobic air―

apparent and busy in the sun.

Dust hangs in waves of spring,

a universe from the bliss of nowhere.

What fallen star, what robin,

what powdered sooth plays a second chance?

Follow flotsam to the horizon,

cross the bridge through gathering cloud.

Inhale motes and flutter-boats―

the balm of dusk explodes a single sigh.

tk/April 2014

Sexy read by a springy R.A.D. Stainforth...

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