There is a pattern in the sky of dark, in the starry, starry night. Hunters and lions swing amid cumulus, weaving circles into lies. The old boys are at it, those highway blues again, I’m singing, singing, singing, those highway blues again. These men who live in bubbles like an unbrewed cup of tea –Continue reading “Bubble men”
Tag Archives: headache
neutron bomb
i’d go there if i could leave this bleeding behind i’d hide away darken my body from sunlight but since i am not a house grief would have me burn to cinders 11/12/1981
wide open
wide open this skeletal frame indecently bare no smog just rain no sheets you see this migraine naked skin skull- temples throbbing 10/20/80
white
this visitor raps on my door dressed in a doctor’s prescription i engulf him or does he engulf me? 1-20-80
razor blade
you slick and brassy cheat father time of further transgressions to be judged by 1980s
Knife
Cool steel you are, sheen bridled in a glassy tone. You, magnet of my dreams, draw me, enclose me, wrap me in your strength. I am the beginning, you are the end, shall we meet? 1980s
I can I will
I have bathed in you long. I have doused your crystals on the strands of my hair. I have welcomed you, splashing your waves against my thighs. I have lived through you. But now I let the arid sun burn me dry. Your sweet cool bubbles do not belong on my skin anymore. Find anotherContinue reading “I can I will”
hatchet
glider pane and sleek sparkle a mirror smile to approach this wobble turkey’s neck of mine sharp exact timed right aaah at last i breathe 2/13/1980
Car
They glare at me. They glare at me in blindness- silver stars surging forth into light years. They are insane to believe that my hands will not wind the wheel towards them. 1980s revised 11/2016
bye bye headache
bye bye headache fly away from me bye bye see you no more fly away from me can i make it yes i can me in me says me bye bye headache fly away from me 2/26/80
Anne's mediocre poetry 