Book 12
Jade and delft claws
litter the cobbles
pincered remnants of the
grasping hard-shelled scrabble
for a short life
severed bodies in avian maws
the punishment
for straying into
a shallow environment
An avenue of parvenues
on review
the studied nonchalance
of the Champs Elysee
Brows arched
in the triumph of
unruffled trumpery
unstifled towers of
trifled, truffled
egos
Sea gullibies
and children's cries
the wind winds all
in kite string
and singing halyards
cup of clouds
a bowl of sky
a silver salver of seas
an easel of breeze
playing the tease
do as you please
take your ease
I do not wish
the cities amazed artifice
not for me the busy
animated wannabe bodies
no glitterati, twitterati
not I
I wish no more than
the pleasure of unpeopled
ever unsettled shores
liquid to languid
many hued moods
the horizon's magnetic muse
unshared solitary amusements
the surety of solitude
page Death leaves grieving
wreckaged unreckoned
Madras insect fans
kimonoed dervishes
crayoned doyans
arial, oriel, Ariels,
oroboros carouseling
Cymbeline's cocooned children
fluttering, seiving
the nectar for believing
in the unfailing crysalis catechism
Downed
fledgling goslings
gathered flightless
en flotilla face
the sailor's distant scarlet
early warning
swimmingly unaware
away toward the
shoreless
from infancy
we build our shells
compartmentalizing our
many chambered heart
an operculum wherein
compressed lips
whorl pearls
the castenet of clamshells
in the curl
the gulls soprano croon
tern's keen croak
the heron's silent sharp
trombone
the hushed cymbal
of surf
the plover's skirling pipe
the two note tide turning
to the combers beat
and constant boom
Elf locked
Elvis coifed
unleaved
eldritch limbed trees
winterized
and we wooly headed
enmittened
scarved and swathed
adult kittens
crave the scarce sun
Thin red line of lip
curved by cupidity's quip
nothing dims
from dune to dale
what was scarlet
now pale
always unadulterated
Anne
Warm bread
newly risen
word buttered
spread by pen
to open mouth
each bite uttered
then written
by hand
holding the staff of life
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