K Mae

K Mae Oct 2014

full belly hiding
or belt it out the danger
lies with feline longing
through the heat
find the mate
apparently content
but it's kindness less than free
claw the covers honestly
grateful for the cost

K Mae Oct 2014

laughing mirror

oh yes I am come to see me
locking on
engaged recognition
tasting this crazed particularity
and give it up for laughter
deep from bellies
catching breath as if we can
look again and laugh from deeper
no explanation
we are mirrors on this wavelength
who know at last it is pointless to judge

my friend, who also cuts her hair at midnight, steps out of her car to greet me....

K Mae Sep 2014

hung

on the line
after all these years
your skivvies hang
now crotch forward
ever hopeful

#marriage #humor

K Mae Sep 2014

another gate (gate gate paragate)

I dream at will
both asleep and awake
swirling all colors
delighting all
who happen to dance on my path

#heart #sutra

K Mae Sep 2014

Mimi

when Mimi died
I stayed in my state
dug in the earth
loving her well
looking skyward
to see comet beauty
true face of owl
body papoose wrapped
again
*birth I celebrate

Mimi and Meme, common names for grandma in Ameri-French families

#death #birth

K Mae Jul 2014

Cat and I

We miss you too much
Cat and I
He agreed to run these first crises through his body
I do not know what is next.

K Mae Jul 2014

Blazon Cat

Beloved
fur sheen black as skin is pink
        eyes unnatural green glow
who rubs against our legs and stays
     tail wrapped in ownership around
intelligence honed by games razor sharp
whose lungs fill with fluid now like an old smoking man
               and must be given drugs
         and must be slept with
      for he must not die ignored
                             my heart aches with his

Blazon, a form of poetry from french culture, grown from the list
Blazon, a structure for stream of consciousness