hiatus

Posted on May 10, 2008 by riverwriter

little brothers
sleeping twisted
in blankets and sheets
like free-falling
stars and tentacles
still as a portrait
gentle as a cyclone
ready as a nail
metaphor for tomorrow
in our silent
pre-dawn house

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(Lone) bird on air (conditioner)

Posted on May 9, 2008 by riverwriter

Bird on air con
      -ditioner
d’ya think it’s ma
      -ma’s war
      -m heart
murmuring love?

Peek not into
her bosom:
she will man
      -gle stran
      -gle with her fan
blades.

Oh coo
      -l down
      -y bird
      -y coo
      -ked as goo
      -se is.

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chocolate

Posted on May 8, 2008 by riverwriter

After the slender honeymoon
glazed by the high tiny moon
overlooking the lazy blue
Caribbean tides she flew back
to the clacking bottling plant
opened a new box of cherry creams
and got sticky dreamy again.

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