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Aug 2013 · 843
Muttering Freights
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
The address of a melon. Table
hopping water, never happy enough with
it's last meal, especially after five hours.

San Antonio freights full of fire pokers
ashamed of how much salt they put
on the skillet.
it's just jello, I say, you can never have
too much salt

I shudder at mystic growls. Howling
through eyes. Did I meet you there, or
was that just another imagining?

Straight back and waiting. Middle
finger thumping, my feet just tapping.
I sit in a two days wait, a moment
passing. In the sudden it peaks,
it is gone.
Aug 2013 · 1.2k
Stamped
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
She stamped me, with that hug
Her perfume is posted on my collar
Why would she have perfume, she
was running
And how did it get pressed on my collar
Now I have to smell her
Breathing a light desire, a thin dust of gypsy magic,
Every third breath.

Pretty peach, I wonder if she curls flowers
If not, she sure does stamp them
Aug 2013 · 667
Cradled
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
Cloud sandwich
After a long day flying
Invited to this rock to rest
Did you call it Earth?

I've Slid like silk between strata
The Light Steed's earnest breath
Is north of near, between the crests
Of here and there

Guided by centeredness
Engaged to peace
The Golden Fleece of allowance
lets it Be
                          
Angel cradled mind release
Eyebrow mountains, the crystal creek
Flowing forth The Creator speaks,
"Drink deeply child, be filled.”

Yes, I can stick around for some stellar tea
And a light shake
Cloud sandwiched, I'll give you
Tours of the galaxy.
Aug 2013 · 1.1k
The Work is Enough
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
He spent hours bending himself
Shape shifting through the night
Before finding the image
Stooping all over his hands, lost over his spectacles
Neck pains. The musty apartment is lit
By a kerosene lamp that's
Fixed upon the book shelf in the corner.
It has no lampshade
Its high brown orange casts headaches
And proves rotting plaster.

He is saved by dawn blue
Dawn blue for ****** eyes
Rags hang around in groups.
A cashew waits before the trash bin
Books lay around, spines exposed
Sleep would muster new strength, no loss.
Good grains, a few oats, high oats.
He feels his oats,
Bent over his work
Why sleep now?

He'll eat a can of corn
If he can get away

But  who has time for lighting a gas stove when there's work
The work is his gas stove
Aug 2013 · 718
Flip Quick, Head Up
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
My love must be a kite run
Tight wrung ribbons
Separate the knots in my knees
Knots from wine
She moves about the kitchen flicking flames off candles
That wine at the table at which I sit is a good wine

I think of the troubles of writing at a screen
I'll consider the problem of writing in a notebook
When I find that **** notebook.

Speaking honestly to a tray of napkins
They can't help the Merlot that's polishing the table
Dark wood is well stained. She asks if I
Remember the small room wine fests in my dorm
My sheets came home from college dotted purple
I remember.

Lurking in the shadows
These thoughts free themselves
Releasing the inescapable passion of a zealot unheard for centuries
Now, in this miniature pressing of keys a wire company will see every idea that spills out of me
The pigs
I hope they come to my door wearing black.

Honey, your hot, don't get mad,
She appears out of the smells
I'm drunk, not mad, I'm spilling the Merlot
We have more, dear.

I love that woman right there and none other

Lets jump out the window and roll through the grass
Come on child, cant you see we got cliffs to catch.  
**** on up your hind legs and lets get to moving.
Don't you know its half past seven and the turn tables grooving

I like that, she says, reminds me of the pictures of you as a boy

I turn to thank her but I can't find her
She dissolves into the smells of the kitchen
And plus, I'm gone.

What is human nature unless covered by an aesthetic, who am I, if not an imposer?
What poet is this, if not the first?

A line of a poem is a poem in itself
I'll regret this next week

But, sand over rock will polish something smooth
In a thousand years, no regret
A mesa stands grounded
In an ocean of wind

Herring cries
Through the morning leaves
What makes them mourning?
They're just a different shade green.

I like that too, she says to me

An Ibis will wind through a pond
But is it just his wake we see, or can
We really spot that bird?
Aug 2013 · 892
Halfway Broke
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
Mother worked the ten hour shift
Tonight
To put a plastic chicken
And a string bean
On the dinner table

I poked it with a fork and
Steam came out. When I threw it
On the ground, I will swear  
It made a sound

I haven't had meat since Christmas
Mother
Remember?
She looked at me
Red eyed
These weak ten hour shift
Eyes.

On second thought,
I can't even call them eyes
They were in sockets and beady
Black and red, broke and
Needy

Mother shoulders Colossus
With a full life shift
She comes home blind and
Plops a plastic chicken
And a string bean
On the dinner table

We'll stay halfway broke
With these life time shifts
I'm ******* hungry
I haven't had meat
Since Christmas
Aug 2013 · 466
For Those
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
For those women in the corner making gestures
I pray

           What is the meaning of tea for two?

For the children still sleeping
And that old man with shaky hands
Sweeping

Milk will be set out for you in the morning
Aug 2013 · 1.2k
I Can't See Anything
Daniel E Mickey Aug 2013
An idled peace in the forest breathes
Every thought in itself
Whole.
It must be the life spirit, the ministry,
Pole to pole rejoicing.
The thin veil lifted, a school of
Sweeping wings. Let this strange
Hill of nature's suit cradle
Itself.
Let that child rest.

My cottage beads in July's torment.
I dreamed of a fair day
Is why I'm here.
Revolving perspective, will someone
Please hand me a credible vantage point.
The lens to get an even look.

This ancient, contemplating  
Frost moon.
Quiet thought.
Night beats on platters. Heaves
Roving breath.

Dwelling in Innocence
Till birth
Tender eyed, forgotten.
Sweet,
The day will come.

She, today, moves in fabulous array
Of shimmering sparks. Light pale drips
From her shoulders.
Bare wax, the space between myself
And the candle.
Blow away the pride and stand straight to her.
Step in stride. Give her
One to look at.

The sense that life esteems joyfully
Hosting frenzy indeed.
Vast scenes of shipwrecked landscapes.
Ruins whipped by choppy dust.

Heaven's heart treads alone,
Through the ocean's side.
The path of dew is told by the sky.

Lightning takes care of what is left.

The sunken lesson,
Knowing night is close. Shall
We bend through the lilacs weeping?
Laughing?

— The End —