It starts like this Watch the ocean and sky kiss Building a ship of feathers A place for sunburnt, stranded sailors A tray for stillwater dreams We crave a spell, a fix, a score A contagion or a cure Wearing shades till the candlelight begins its rhyme Never get caught in nursery time Never make contact of eyes We tell ourselves it's Bethlehem Inhaling glass Playing house Psychological profiles of planets Silence amuses and upsets Lay on your backs, arms out-stretched Watch other heartbeats teach flying lessons Hallucinate in sunspots See the clouds as they dot out your fate in negative space An extinct hue of eyes amidst a shade of blue Stick your head out the firmament Past the clouds Breathe in the stars Dome of the world Never as menacing as these white fences The moon and her ****** All our defenses against a scorching sun Skyscrapers pierce but our fingers an eyes remain the best tools to drill small holes To see what we want to see Squinting in belief or disbelief Hot cities and cold deserts Hot coals and dust bowls Anchored ghosts A strange, soothing spark A defeated arc Acorn fell upon my head Mother earth waits with bated breath and open jaws Beware mass hysteria in a closed world Fear-mongers striking dumb first War efforts Sounding alarms Black swans Sick doctors Confetti leaves Glittering sheets of ice Thrones of sapphire Where is all that truly radiates Invisible lighthouses of hearts Pitching tens for spiritual camps Sitting Indian-style above his grasshoppers Waiting for the day they'll make music again Rotating along the circle curve like Buddha on a toy train set A supposed circuit unending Making night, restoring light Millions of years in one blink Life unworthy of life still thrives Tattooed with shoelaces and turquoise veins Repercussions of deformity Antiseptic bombs Hitchhiker's thumb Scapegoats and escape artists Chicken pox Contempt attacks with gnashing teeth Compliments and black *** magic Totality, forgiveness, thunderstruck Too good to be true Kneel in the desert and die Animals **** and we sing love songs Oblivious housewife with a feather-duster Talking puppets A flick of ash Adam's rotten-apple atoms Superbirds and Zenplanes The Morning After Dead idols, trendsetters, setting worlds on fire Casino collapsing Purse-*******-Keys, check An embrace like a boa Penetrate, Swallow Whole One nail through two feet Time's cruel canopy A funny tragedy The audience is laughing blood