eastbaypoetics.com

lightfilter of clouds   earth   people

sky behind bars false skins & heads

fake blue ocean wannabe prayer call

holes in walls white too clean ice blue

stone steps leading in spiral chartreuse

silks missing bodies fallen words &

kings trailing lights in white hands

dark beards fire raised above heads

sundaze in ceremony black leather

uniform cake or coffin atop shoulders

men’s eyes solemn or closed like

spiral moves on stone flowers

sunlight of dawn orange moon

royal stripes blurred against mortar

nets for catching gods or fish indigo

memories hieroglyphs & 3rd eyes

the virgin & mastercard rosaries &

chewingum female silhouettes cola

stained teeth origami multicolored

plastic tomorrow’s imprints the color

of mourning; white; artemis dressed as

siva chalk drawings on asphalt black

robes against morning; numbered stairs

leading where globular life forms

bulge voluptuous placed on pedestals

beige mountains stone phallus one

against the other untranslated story

blood dripped from purple desire

dance hand in fist in circles

bonnet & sideswiped eyes fuchsia &

sunshine stolid & studious glassed

in between bricks bottled in pink or

blue severed heads openmouthed

agate bellybuttoned spheres entitled

ulysses painted white warrior stance

spring arrived in a truck uncycled

sky filtered thru branches watery

paths puddles deep as rivers concentric

circles flowing to doorsteps unaddressed

unfound delivered from paranoia

metal rails for fingers lost on turrets

black figures dance across a vase’s

memory of orange; the cracked surface

of a young girl against her father’s gaze;

the bloody passion of savage people; purple

bled into blue water stuck between bricks

+ flowers a line of stone men ponder

the inevitability of error; unadorned

except with white cloth plastic breasts

& waxed bikini scarlet hills eyes fondle

rock colored by mars’ gaze; volcanic jesus

clipped of color; obscure; mummied;

ancient trunks reaching earth’s core;

preaching phallus one against another;

columns sliced like cake; the theatre

crosses the neck reverential; striptease

& vulgar sculptures heart-shaped +

blackened by rain glyphed like lines on

palms; mouth open in song; outlooking;

inlaid stones underfoot tortured christened

stray cats; unnamed except in blue ink

light the color of a lime’s skin pig’s

head for hat; foil goddess framed

mosaic saint underfoot easterly oriented trees

stolen rhythms pink halters lipsticked

mannequins insist on red; carved wooden

wings bloodstained as mary gold like money

stories told in 4 colors; fishnets + stilettos

curls on cheek children of a dark age

outreach arms to dance against religion;

stone stripes byzantine braids around neck;

bare legs on independence day; spike heels

clipping cobblestone; twisted silver crossed

yellow lined decapitated skyline moving on

water

 

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