Inside sand box memories lay buried plastic army men
outside sandy reveries, shoes and socks lay married
happy feet curl, feeling grainy treasures deep
In shade's lee, above, lodgepole tree with singing wren
these theater birds, all limelight, in leaves varied
peep remembrances, chirp and cheep of cherished day
warm and breezy grass-bend-sighs, passing into keep
now feet in socks in shoes walk home along a mindful way

-cec

giggling children pull synthetic webbing tight
this front yard tree did not mind its branches bound

cotton candy webs festoon neighborhood round
polymer birds, quickly caught, and ***** in flight

snakes gathered motionless on leaves and grass
waiting for a standing rubber rat's first move

as cold breezes begin to fog in evening's loony mood
tattered fabric clouds consume remaining day's pass

now night extends its long and hairy legs in cramps
as shadows move among threads suspended stiff

All Hallow's Eve howls its curdled screams
spiders creep, crawl and wrap sweet cadaver corpses

-cec

a smooth stone skipped once, twice
would there be a third kiss more
how that sun beam followed
each ripple's glittering diamond eye
inverting, reverting that perfect flight
to plunge into this day's memories, hallowed
watched by flying fish and twisting mermaids
holding out fin and fingers to touch a miracle
now sunk to rest in depth's lobster dream
following one, two, more, in bottom lines
marching to an unknown destiny of instinct's embrace

-cec

cloud cover thickens this emotional porridge
realizing distant leagues between letters
written on vistas vast and open prairie
with piled stones of a fettered heart

your silence bespeaks these iconic symbols
atmospheric visions, while I stay rooted
a fantasy and sage brush cumulonimbus
in Nazca Lines, shared love, lives muted

how many years and weathered months
as careless rivulets move each grain
and mountains crumble to their sea mounts
with moist remembrances of loss retained

-cec

these winds have no chords tonight
drifting over a prairie of loneliness
knotting oozing thoughts of nostalgia
into tumbleweeds of emptiness

weaving darkness follows dusk
as incomplete eyes silently search
canyon phantasma in moonlit cascade
there fairy wisps of fog bank lurch

astride a hairy back enchanted mule
rides this only-monkey's whimpering
Shh-e, Titania, waits there for you
hidden among musk rose whispering

go falling upon thorny-hairy eared cactus
as time does stream disjointed desire
in this wasteland of a singular tactus
caught in swayed affections of heart's briar

-cec