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Apr 2015 · 420
Your fingertips
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
Your fingertips
lift up my lips
at the corners

But I smile
because I want to,
I smiled before I
met you

It shakes my little
soul to be with
you, and

I'd smile because
you want to,
I smile because
I want to
Apr 2015 · 425
I've less
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
I've less
patience than
I remeber,

and my day
is sufficiently ruined
It's your own fault though lol
Apr 2015 · 1.3k
Hypocrite tournament
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
Hypocrite tournament
put the hippos in a
tourniquet

Turnt a bit
too turned up

Two ton tummies
summo wrestling,
who will win?

Mounted champion
munching on
mountains:
A hypo-hippo-perbole
Apr 2015 · 6.4k
Constitution pollution
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
Constitution pollution:
the constable ruining
the ******* consecration

A soluble solution:
grape sipping blood
letting to fully bless
the humors
Apr 2015 · 404
I was shore
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
I was shore
that could not
leave the sea alone

The waves floating
my way while
I think of how it
flows and the way
my loose sand goes

The sea waves towards
the shore for the
calm in her:

He waves
onto my shore
-incessantly- calming her
Apr 2015 · 790
In sheets and stone
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
In sheets and stone
presently wrapped up
nice and tightly tucked in:

A close embrace
of the earth

Play mountain- with the
hill a slide- the slide
a hill and the swing

Drawn up on all corners:
the equating shift
of gravity and the
aesthetic
Apr 2015 · 483
Lungs in the sink
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
Lungs in the sink
mixed in with
the pink

smoke slinking
gray tincture
prescribed
Apr 2015 · 260
I know
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
I know
my roads
will dry beneath
the snow -just
like a face I
remember
seeing-
Apr 2015 · 650
Mojo LowJo
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
Mojo LowJo:
not quite the
chimp in a
purple cape

No triplet of
enemies beset
against me

And still yet
met with demise:
thwarted poetry
on the rise
Apr 2015 · 331
Made a fire
Cecelia Francis Apr 2015
Made a fire
made of fire
maid of fire
underneath

Lit made me
glow

Held a flame
helm a flame
held aflame
on the beach

Lit made me
glow
Mar 2015 · 361
To be the
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
To be the
adjunct one
must primarily
be unnecessary
-or else of lesser
rank and authority-
and added to
an already complete
institution

Secondary
requirements
include a lack
of permanence:
why keep what
is only auxiliary
-indeed, I too
now see-
Mar 2015 · 264
I can't forgive
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
I can't forgive
it, yet still I
wonder
of the
next who
finds your skin

Will she make
your heart beat
faster than I can?
Could she give you
all you ask for?

All the nights tucked
in love filled sheets,
I hope they made
you feel good

Can she give you
all you hope for?
Mar 2015 · 701
Apart a part
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Apart a part
partnership apartment
in the armpit of
the army

Arms arming
apart a part
artfully
artlike
ark like
covenant:
partners partly
apart
Mar 2015 · 1.5k
Variations on preach
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Love proves
inadequate at
every turn

****** niggling
over stupid
****

Shed no tears

Ain't like he
crying over
you
Mar 2015 · 1.1k
Are we really done
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Are we really done
with phrasing? I mean, I just
wish someone told me
Mar 2015 · 249
I followed you
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
I followed you
from the hill
whose view
left you empty

I filled you in
-careful of the lines-
when that force came
to claim your mind

I even changed
my mane this time,

I followed you up the hill,
where it's frozen
Mar 2015 · 480
God willing to
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
God willing to
play the character
and dress us up accordingly

I want puce gloves and
green boots: a contradiction

Do I contradict myself?
very well then, I contradict
myself
Mar 2015 · 600
Penelope
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Heart going like mad
yes, to my mountain flower
I said, I would, yes
Mar 2015 · 707
Frustration function
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Frustration function
to organize the committee
for their public tongue shun

Jettison junction
flicked up or down
in the merging lane
to turn left or right
with unction

What a snare of delusion!
What a state of confusion.

To shoot the hen before
dawn; awake to quiet
its intentions
Mar 2015 · 326
I'm on all fours
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
I'm on all fours
I'm on the floor
I'm on the force
that turns the day back into night
Mar 2015 · 395
La llorona
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
La llorona
mojado con
sus océanos
se ahogando
2x4
Mar 2015 · 266
Feel I
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Feel I
feel like
feline skepticism

Feline
bee lines
belies her approach
Mar 2015 · 316
Moon princess
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Moon princess
prism power
activate monthly:
destroy everything
2x4
Mar 2015 · 161
There is
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
There is
no more
of him
for me
2x4
Mar 2015 · 310
What do you do
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
What do you do
after you've taken a bite
of the world and found
it unsavory?

Call the waiter to
return it and
eat the sun
instead

And if little
proclivity for
spicy food then
opt for dessert:

lick the moon
to its gooey
center
Mar 2015 · 715
Who's that on the
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Who's that on the
dial of the radio?
-a twist to the left
and sounds come
out rejoicing-

Immortal thoughts voiced
crossed coming through
the wiring

Loose **** turned
to set the tape
rewinding
Mar 2015 · 286
Lying at the bottom
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Lying at the bottom
of an ocean

-enough plots of land
to plan on the
seafloor-

To make a home
where the sand
is strongest
Mar 2015 · 2.8k
Striked kite
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Striked kite
-lightning bolt-
key: string
rod electricity
Mar 2015 · 713
Mira al cielo
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Mira al cielo
como un fuego
-con ojos apartan-
el sol sumirse
en el olvido,
en un sueño
profundo,

Mira al cielo
oscureciendo
Ha sido un rato hasta yo escrito en espanol
Mar 2015 · 397
Is this disguise
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Is this disguise
is this the sky
is this the life that's turned out?

How many lies
how many lives
how many hives to break through?
Mar 2015 · 388
Upon a Jewel's Clothes
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
When in thin sheets my sweet Jewel lays
within that ocean-cloth soft and its waves
my limbs can then search, search, stretch, and stay

Where I cast my arms out, a net flung to sea
with currents to wriggle you closest to me
O how floating drifts us to glittering sleep
A 'translation' of Herrick's Upon Julia's Clothes
Mar 2015 · 533
To sit
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
To sit
means
to be sitting already
-in the mind-

The same goes for
literature and
written music:
to be read
means
to be performed
-in the mind-

Some great production
of the theatrical imagination:
to project familiar airs of many a
stranger's voice behind the eyes
Mar 2015 · 417
Gravity and its enemies
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
Gravity -and its enemies-
pulling one into the other,
not quite a planet and
its moon, but perhaps
a planet and its men
-dependent on the other-
Cecelia Francis Mar 2015
I cough my lungs to splendor
with the simple tchk
of my lighter

Are they standing or
on all fours? Stuck between
two columns of gapped bony thighs
expanding, extracting, contracting

And yet the air
fills and flows until full:
-even throughout the night-
Feb 2015 · 317
Layer your love
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Layer your love
atop me as brusque as
the strokes of an oil painting:
red over blue under yellow
Feb 2015 · 387
Lokah samastah
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Lokah samastah
sukhino bhavantu

Oh Lord that I would
pray to in my youth,
be that you are as active
as when I beleieved in you,
there is still no affirmation
for if faith brings presence

Prayer being to rely
heavily upon ones
own self storage
of resources

Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu
Feb 2015 · 630
Please open seal
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Please open seal
gently, the general
surgeon commands
his general army

No more hesitation:
The first incision
made at the
proper perforation

The code is embedded
deep in the thalamus
between -before- us:
A carrier pigeon
bringing his
message

He does not
stop to rest
on his way
Feb 2015 · 582
Whose little dog
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Whose little dog
to wag a finger
at today?

-Bone swallowed,
slid and stuck in
the wrong pipe-

What is enough
to feel better?
an equal distribution
of humors throughout
ones constitution

Scales tipped
by the lilts of
a pointer
Feb 2015 · 346
Frozen pipes filled
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Frozen pipes filled
with clear molded
folds of flesh
-like wrapped
up flowers,
budding-

No shower
to take
-not even a
cold one-

The sink is running only
warm to hot water, so
at least there's that
Feb 2015 · 1.8k
My bae has got
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
My bae has got
these loving arms
that never get enough,
and let me roll too
much

I've got it good, I've
got a good one who
makes me good as new
even as the new
moon rises
Feb 2015 · 229
Poetry is
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Poetry is
the folds of
a tip in a rolled
spliff: is it an
M or a W?
Feb 2015 · 420
To have avenues
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
To have avenues
nuanced ancient
scientific entities
titrates rationed
rather irrationally
at a rats rate

-do you feel
anything yet?-

To have access
to the Brocas and
Wernicke at all times
-unless compromised-

Nonsensical arrangement
of bits of sounds
mounding to some
amount
Feb 2015 · 1.0k
Disappointment ointment
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Disappointment ointment
to treat the pigs
at their disastrous
appointment
-oink, oink-
o ink o inkling
clinging and lingering
Feb 2015 · 461
Another dream
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Another dream
of the other me being
a super ****
-jellyfish hand
floating unt
ut up-

Hatred for
started strategized
conversations-
conversion converted
conviently ate up,
satiated and satisfied
Feb 2015 · 815
Something along
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Something along
the fine line of
leave me the
**** alone

Again it comes
quickly, that
inexorable id
charred charge
charging

Misanthropic by nature:
nothing personal,
surely, as devised
in divided dual
individuals make
a good duo with
moody id

But as a whole?
Those holed and humid
humans imps imposing
postures?
Literally, they can
all literarily eat me
out—medium-rare,
raw—
Because you like my ranty ones
Feb 2015 · 2.7k
She tastes her tongue
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
She tastes her tongue
-stuttering, spluttering-
and recoils -bitterness
and bile- slobber down
the side of the chin,
spitting it out.

She tapes her tongue
to the front of her
teeth -so that it
does not touch her
uttering buds going
down-

Slurping loudly
the syrupy silence
and its sounds
her thirst grows
to frenzy

Sacrificial  
blood offering
-trembling-
to the ancients
within her
Assembly of the doodles that are my notes from She tries her tongue, her silence softly breaks M.Nourbese Philip
Feb 2015 · 591
Cake (and eating it too)
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Flask emptied,
half-full still

cup runneth
over
Feb 2015 · 5.7k
Bike
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Bike
tryke
unicycle

Pedalling
with both feet
and no hands
-gaudy helmet
for safety-

Still inevitable
the blackness and
scratches of
pavement

Ride or die
Collab
Feb 2015 · 476
Crocodiles
Cecelia Francis Feb 2015
Third tooth
chillen on land,
dryness
Haicoup
Jan 2015 · 241
Haicoup I
Cecelia Francis Jan 2015
Couch bed
bound and faded
Good place
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