Hereditament

I.
In the garden

I water                        I watch

The lace-winged labor of play
The animals loll and swat at plants

Fur rubs the sidewalk
Camouflaged skins burrow inside
Fur lines the flesh light

II.
In the gnawing chew             of sidewalk hum
I played street games

The sun a vector                                     I hid in the cool dark

Aimed cue ball at bruised knuckles
My father taught me

How to hurt
How to be pennies

III.
On the fire escape             I grew like a dandelion
Greedy for pigeon talk and flowered skirts

I wanted to be a garden
So I doused myself with hosewater

Painted my arms with thorns
In the wandering dusk

How to be a fortress
Tenement of my red mouth

How to be quiet
Dig under the belly
Lift the stone slab

(from a writing prompt by Elizabeth Treadwell and anthologized in “Hereditament”: http://secretmint.blogspot.com/2013/04/hereditament-flash-anthology-no-2.html)

Light: NaPoWriMo Day Ten

When light sticks inside bodies

The viscous imaginary

A protective sheath, a plastic coating, a waterfall

Orbital schema – an awkward grinding

Grey over buoyant grey, a rainbow scrape

When light sticks inside bodies

Bug jelly maths

Porifera make new hydras

Give Zeus the finger

A parthenogenetic hum

stuns the ocean floor

Leaves shoot duodenal refuse

A vein of cellular debris

But, to chop it -

A clutch of pearls through the stained glass

A pawing at the branches

When light is a family of bones

When light deviates

NaPoWriMo Day Six

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Gallop, gastrointestinal heart cavity

The ridge just beyond

Horizon membrane

Pink, lavender, blood orange

A disarray of muteds

Lungs, give it all you got

*Today, I wrote poems in the bathroom and at the dinner table.  Writing on the weekends is tricky business! 

NaPoWriMo Day Five

The body met with an alter of the image of the body

What we see when we seek reflection

The ever a whisper an incandescent eye droop

Gravity seeking its own breasts cupped so the light can laugh too

How time makes us empathic for women we once reviled

Neglect and its chambers of dropped infants

The insouciance of stubbed cigarettes as woman spooned the creamed peas

Time is making my ankles heavy where I ripped and ripped out my roots

Extirpated that woman in the kitchen smock

Extirpated that idea of seeking permission

NaPoWriMo Day Four

There is no need to emerge
The general body plan is
solar, systemic, cnidarian

The mouth stings
Take your flea meds
Live above the float
Somersault tentacles

A separate free-swimming phylum
It's whole body reacts
Shake out the hydra's head

NaPoWriMo Day Three

A human is a half-way house to a bird

Whiplike flagella that lash back and forth

Poking at echinodermata, appropriating invertebrate wraith

Is I what it means to be a self

A stomach the length of a performer’s discretion

Granularity of its stain – a tree ring

All night the hard fatty substance applied,

Slurps with an enlarged pink.

What are the attempted catechisms masochisms

The wind a push of carnivorous ghosts

NaPoWriMo Day Two (late)

This skeleton of tiny needles

This object in an electrical field

Persons or the general plastic

The process of photographing digital objects

A film of extravascular

Originating in igneous an appendage

Shaped by worry stones

Rebellion marked with liner

Any of several shrub species point to their horns

Lend plasma to the earliest silicate

The conversion of gratuitous benefit

Another term includes relatives

Seem them water the girl watching sparks

Crossing Bay Bridge in a Storm, or Morning Commute Geometry

Engineering serendipity

To grow taller and taller buildings
Animals in the phyla kingdom
The marsh of drag and drop
The perpetual habit daze

What comes out
Drowning hazard lights
Film of wet hush
Rocking my small icy boat
A tornado of white urges