Cutis Anserina

Existential starlight As the night Bows in twilight Soot of a black air Is slowly swept away Through the Snoqualmie Pass Over Teneriffe’s teeth And North Bend valley peaks Embers of Sol Burn Ellensberg’s soul As the visible spectrum Scorches the grass Into Yakima Valley This twisting path And the sun rises Wiping the coldContinue reading “Cutis Anserina”

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No Expectations

Poison colored Locks of ivy Flowering with Green pigment So bright And neon And lovely A nude Unprotected Trusting Beauty Cloaked in a Cloak invisible To sting With venom If needed Long strands of Toxic green Wasting decaying Threads Thick and luminous Split ends Like needles Hypodermic Stark and gorgeous When unwrapped Yet lethal ToContinue reading “No Expectations”

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Visage

Behind the lenses Are eyes that are patient They observe and have The nerve for waiting To see what might be Made of the blank slate Reflective glasses Mirroring the observed Back to themselves As they wonder what thoughts Lie behind the opaque mask What ideas lurk And what poison Must perk A mask toContinue reading “Visage”

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