A resplendent dandelion
that tenacious gales and gardeners could not uproot
crowned with a wreath of lion's teeth
both smooth and sharp
guardians of my quintessence
flitted away and fell out
as I ate
and ate
and ate
and threw up
on food and drugs and love
to fill a restless void I'd felt since birth
a yearning
to feel in extremes
but I lost my teeth
and became a gummy grandmother
a fragile translucent globe
a clicking anaemic clock
acupunctured with eyelashes
yes the gales rip through me
but it's the whispers that melt me away
everywhere and all the time
yet I still try to float and fly far
in fear of landing in a farm

Inside the minds eye we think to ourselves
Outside everything all at once
In life I came to understand the simplest things
In the most complex way that I could imagine

The body knows to breath
Life knows how to be
I am amongst it all
Inside
Outside
And forever

With these hands I hold the flame
An old joke dies
And in its wake
Births quietly
Acupunctured skin folds flap and flew
Ventriloquists budding
A hairy dog
Grass masked the mane of the dandelions roar
A powerful broad sweeping stroke off a solitary water painters pen
Insects burrowing in the garden
A whisper of somebody worshiping the gods that they were told to know
Easily finding meaning within a limited scope
Equity
Equality
The ****-fest of mankind
And our limited ability to perceive the entirety of it all

I do recall
The words that I’ve used

Electric flesh
I am
And so are you

And to each other

We present

Our edited lives