in the forest

in the forest

new shades of gnarled

curling, the trees

shape their wounds

wrap around

each other

like comfort

Dictionary Poem

Cleavage appears first

Any member a mouth

Developing indeterminate isotopes

The sea squirts, the fish in layers

A penetration of epithelial

A substance of killing

To draw in water

A baby, a cloud

The edentate

Colorless material relating

Latitudes for the sidereal

Established for the treelike

Used furs a number of ornamental loops

Haunt of the ferocious

Armor from the splinters

I made my own scaffold

Deracinated

Granular anthems the shrub of a genus

Sometimes used as a gemstone

Married, transparent, from rendered fats

Dinner with Phoenix and Aphrodite

My son (6) asked: “where do people go when they die?” I explained that no one really knows, but that people have different theories - sometimes based on which religion they believe in, and whether or not they believe in God. He quickly maintained that he does not believe in God, which he’s mentioned before. So, I asked him what he believes in.  He replied: “I believe in you. I believe in love. I believe in the goddesses.”

The mother of love says go on give it open up

The crown heart thrush rises – to overlook precipice

Take aim, glowing out light embers

Cicatrix phosphenes in the fire radial

Belly was the boulder belly the chasm

Upright stone slab – a storm of grey wanting

She lifts, fragments:

Membrane wing,

two breath,                         flesh devour

Spiny,                                     comb bearer,                                                 little ring

Ungulates

Love says: look and I am you.

Gloria (for Elizabeth Treadwell)

To you in the highest
Comestible sunset
A celestial body outlaw
Close enough to dump material
on that other star

Mad math of the prism
Mother of light
Helios – mouth of the annelid
Of invertebrate starts
Maw of the under beyond
Pineal subways, circulatory systems, sudden moon phases
Pumping vessels flowering ganglia

Gloria, fair
Gloria, olive
Gloria, midnight
Ejecting plasma



(anthologized in Elizabeth's flash anthology: http://secretmint.blogspot.com/2013/04/gloria-flash-anthology-no-1.html)

NaPoWriMo Day Eight

 I.

There is a fur in making

Scratches markings on its dorsal side

Spins irregular – is disorderly – chances

II.

Danger: Keep arms and legs inside

Covers abdomen, swallows pill, depresses tongue

A mother rat after the maternal heart

III.

Torn from its parietal (parent)

Sponges and other invertebrates

Stand motionless with pedipalps raised

NaPoWriMo Day Seven

The thin connective tissue a wedding song

Outside, an organism –

Gregarious leaping from branches

            A dull musical hum

            All coordinates marry distance

Measure hostility of an old heart

Slowly – a meat snap

Asymmetrical

A stitched wedding dress

The heart now feathers for plucking