Andromeda --
parsecs of wandering gas clouds
******* infinity while giving birth to stars

Are galaxies conscious beings?

this other-verse would, yes, approve;
of this dust mote seen by giant’s eye,
all mighty light and gravitational darkness

spirals


-cec

the fog of war obscures the clouds
fire rains down from the sky above
headless poet recites haiku

everyone Atlas
burdens seeping from their womb
winter’s frozen mud

-cec

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

glass winds chime, small birds
mandolin, violin play
anticipate spring

-cec

Donny Clump took a dump in Okefenokee swamp
young possum and turtles had to hold up their nose
for descent of the “phew”, was allowed by broke pumps

many steered clear of the few, chewing their cut
as the congress-mum says, “Don’t be caught indisposed”
with the slime off the feet of those stirring up mud

this swamp, as all wetlands, was pristine, toy green,
beware of the snakes, vultures and all poison toads;
while a fat pachyderm is proceeding up stream

now the waters all tested by once EPA
here polluted and rancid by one parties’ sway
to bring final solution to democracy’s flow

-cec

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

Rain upon this heart your love
a cloudburst of sighs and giggles
lifting up with windy kisses
wrapped in arms of thunderbolts

-cec