Sunset
Viking pyres sinking
by degrees from North Manitou
annealing the portside window
on an overnight flight to Dublin
spilling dye downtown high
above the left field bleachers
finger painting suburban skies
of my childhood racing
to beat the streetlights
floating fire on Lake Superior
too many times to count
Malibu two nights one July
sashaying drunk on magenta
going off to pout in the dark
when I called you a show off
you’ve seen me at my worst
I know all your florid secrets
little wonder we’ve grown
to resemble one another
incandescent palettes leached
wicking gunmetal horizons.
Oct 18, 2016
Oct 18, 2016 at 5:00 PM UTC
Sunset
Viking pyres sinking
by degrees from North Manitou
annealing the portside window
on an overnight flight to Dublin
spilling dye downtown high
above the left field bleachers
finger painting suburban skies
of my childhood racing
to beat the streetlights
floating fire on Lake Superior
too many times to count
Malibu two nights one July
sashaying drunk on magenta
going off to pout in the dark
when I called you a show off
you’ve seen me at my worst
I know all your florid secrets
little wonder we’ve grown
to resemble one another
incandescent palettes leached
wicking gunmetal horizons.
