Sunday, October 27, 2013

butterfly tears and castaways


theres a tickle on my cheek
as i lie here in the weeds

it's a speckled butterfly
sipping at my tears, waking me

and scaring her, she flutters
off to seek some other salt

where a cougar urinates
in the sand beside the creek.

i hear that song, the one
that creeps into unwelcome

cells, you'd recognize it in
a second, from the beginning

of a sitcom, the seven
castaways on a three

hour cruise? ridiculous
i know. wish i could make it

go away. so here i am
stretched out flat, waiting for bliss

surrendered to wildflowers
pale scent, watching fickle clouds

changing dance partners above,
and then that song slips across

the border, blotting visions
of wood nymphs and fifty nine

t-birds, eternity and love,
the oneness of the cosmos.

so sit right back and you'll hear
a tale, the tale of a fate………..

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