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bulletcookie Feb 2023
you come to this confessional
mouth full of contrition
sorry for him, sorry for her
longing for them
streaming your line of poetics
stringing syllables, a rosary

a lost sol in the ink of space
wanting somehow to replace
that feeling of having transgressed
bonds, promises, fingers crossed
now, typing out a stone ledger
atop the remains of the day

-cec
bulletcookie Feb 2023
glass winds chime, small birds
mandolin, violin play
anticipate spring

-cec
bulletcookie Jan 2023
evening remains of morning coffee
a gray day of rain's persistent mission
window's reveal: a diffused, wet world, paws muddy
two crows hunched over a neighbor's chimney
the birch, in distant slumber, 'Tube Man' waves
watching black clouds roll morning till night

a very orange cat drinks its puddle image
it disappears, a rusting red pickup remains
this storm's magic elixir casts a vail of stillness
light entwines on winter's mossy branch
dimming, as darkness erases another calendar square
city sodium vapors aloft steaming like stars glare

-cec
"Unzip a cloud..."
bulletcookie Jan 2023
Rain upon this heart your love
a cloudburst of sighs and giggles
lifting up with windy kisses
wrapped in arms of thunderbolts

-cec
Originally posted for Zara rain, in response to negative electrons, but now loosed into the wild.
bulletcookie Jan 2023
you asked what triggers the writing ─

lightning crackling across a roiling sky
a black, lumbering cloud bank spitting out seagulls
a meteor unwinding its tail before plunging into a lake
wet forest floors etched by countless pine needles
orb spider webs clinging, bolted bridge cables
high pitched whistles and chirps in singular silence
moss on fields of mountain boulders dripping beneath
a white fox leaping above snow covered burrow

fire engine red lurking down our street, stopping
food stained Styrofoam, pressed into a corner of refuse
wet blanket near a boarded up store front
rumbling jet howling its decent into a siren busy city
blood in a bag, teeth barred, too many scattered feathers
red robin armies raiding a plump red holly
cold rain, rain, rain, old siliconed gutters, ice shattered ***
a flickering porch light spelling out random Morse code

a twig breaks ...

-cec
bulletcookie Dec 2022
write ting seems disjointed,
of late
let's do it together
old angst

flow wing out anointed,
late too
this next thought celebrate;
new year!

-cec
bulletcookie Nov 2022
Please stay on the line ─
waiting, waiting, waiting
in line, in lines, on-the-line
while ...
Muzak, playing rings around
and around; a merry-go-round
of instrumental oblivion

twenty minutes times infinity
life in a bottle floating on an ocean
of numbers, rings, dial tones, silence
disembodied voices giving quarterback signals
that misdirect a defense
throwing a yellow flag of neurosis
an empty, time out, receding stare

-cec
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