day slips off
polka-dot dress
for gown
of onyx mink

a princess
in her invisible
tower
shakes out  
laughing
hair

Moon two-faced
like man –
luminous mind
***** grinning
blind

how do I tell what we’ve long ignored
the bell in the heart
the knock at the door
how do I speak with tongue too raw
to severed ears like nails from claw?

like tooth from bite
like eyeball from sight
yeah atom from bomb
yet all buttoned up
with Enlightened Aplomb?

all Buttoned Up
so suave and swift
dashing your slash
with riposte in fist?

like butcher dressed
in Sunday best
drips unseen fat on
his stained undervest
you chomp at the shells
of my words,
spit the rest.

dawn trumpets

flamingo fires the sky -

day breaks and dreams die

her hair strays as
barbed weeds
yet she dreams
kaleidoscope slivers
amber gleams
fragile hope
her fragments
when all else
shreds in
winds

You’ve tamed the beasts -
my lovely Lord -
the twisted troll
the chucky doll
the banshee keening on the marsh
You whipped me to the temple
(they say you were too harsh)

these cravings flame insatiable
a harpy gorging fatty flesh
i ****** the thorns into your eyes
and cackled as they bled:
behold God’s raving jest!
then found you loved me best.

like wild waves and wind
You stilled at Galilee
such savage ache and violent lust
You lull with tender potency
once more a child
quiet, wide-eyed
my head rests on
the Master’s knee