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Path
As days drift on I contemplate my own trajectories,
where life goes where it wants to go with unknown guarantees.
Some days are high, some days are low, some days are in between.
Most days are blessed delightfully in ways I'd not foreseen.
No good can come from floating by without self inquiry,
and anyway it's much more fun to build philosophy,
so here I think about the nature of companionships
and collections of grins and frowns acquired by my lips.

Friends
The opposite of loneliness is having a best friend
who thinks about you just as much as you think about them,
a pairing where the sum of one and one makes more than two,
with bonding so in balance nothing ever feels askew,
a comfort countless fathoms deep no matter what you do
or how much time elapses 'tween each happy rendezvous.
These kinships are the ones you spend your whole life looking for,
to feel the closeness beaming from their eyes at their front door.

But if there is a disconnect it can create despair,
emotional imbalance that feels karmically unfair.
So woe betide the reckless fool who enters willingly
into impossible romance without humility.
Your fortitude might not be quite as strong as is required 
to sidestep psychic suffering inherently hard-wired.
And if they're unavailable but say they want you near,
it throws you into limbo where your future path's unclear.
Should you run deep underground to hide from memory?
Or maybe they will come around, so should you wait and see?

And yet maybe it's all worthwhile, 
to fling those feelings on the pile
of exotic experience.
What's life without some limerence?
Like cooking with ingredients
combined in piquant deviance,
all pleasure's in comparison
to measured bitter medicine.

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I'm lying on the sofa and my cat sits on my chest.
It's the best.

I put down what I'm doing to make room to settle in.
Such a win.

His purring vibrates noisily. He croaks a hoarse meow.
I'm stuck now.

He rubs his face against my face.
We both have found our perfect place.

He suddenly looks at the door, springs up, jumps down, and leaves.
With a sigh I grieve.

He didn't even say goodbye.
So I die.

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Harriotte
Glinting, gleaming, glowing eyes that see the world through sound and touch,
knobbled, knotted, gnarled hands that swing a cane, not as a crutch
but as a percussive surprise for tapping beats on makeshift drums
or finding giant outdoor urns to thrust her face inside and hum.
She seeks the resonating tone and lingers with musical glee,
and when she stops the note continues in the air echoically.
And in the dark two glassy paintings, mottled blue like stormy seas,
emit a light that's joy-sustaining and observe invisibly.

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Single serving popping penes,
tensive turgid whizzing wienies,
flying free like green Houdinis,
spraying seeds from burst zucchinis.

Seedpods explode like grenades,
pressure pulse from valve cascades
launching pips like cannonades
from plant rubbing escapades.

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MantisBones MantisSerenade FoodBugs BugsMug
https://www.instagram.com/miss.mantis/

A miniature sculptor
of moderate size,
of entomic dresses
and floral thigh-highs,
of possums and blossoms,
communing raccoons,
and curated shades of
purples and maroons.
And off in the corner
under picture frames
her husband is working 
'til time for boardgames.

A cool summer evening on top of the hill,
we sit in their condo and quietly chill.
Tip-tapping of fingers, the scratch of my pen,
a peacefulness lingers among us, and then
she offers me chocolate with hazelnut bits
and gathers her laptop and blanket and sits
on the other sofa with her cup of tea,
and says, 😫 "Too much liquid! Now I have to pee!"

And each exposed surface is covered in bugs.
There are bugs in the windows
and bugs on the rugs
and bugs on the shelves
and bugs on the wall
and bugs in the stairwell
and bugs in the hall
and bugs in glass cases
and bugs on the floor
and, let's not forget,
there are bugs on the door
and bugs on the spoons
and bugs on the mugs
and bugs wearing costumes
and bugs giving hugs.

And twining vines line every wall of the room,
with bats, skulls, and ravens like a gothy tomb,
and fabulous fabrics fresh from her dad's loom,
and crêpe paper flowers in permanent bloom

where packed cozy comfort leaves no space for gloom.

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