Secrets

SECRETS

I keep my pockets hidden

Inside out when they are bidden

Then I hang them on the trees where they hum electric bees

I veil my inventories

Grow them round as morning glories

Then I lacquer them in gloss where they caracole crisscross

I classify my ciphers

Codify all new arrivers

Then I nourish them to death where they shift to shibboleth

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The Floriographer

THE FLORIOGRAPHER

Columbine, peach blossom

Mourning bride, crimson polyanthus

Honeyflower, enchanter’s nightshade

Rose of Sharon, ranunculus

Primrose, labernum

Black mulberry tree,

Hemlock

* This poem is written in the language of flowers.

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Samodiva

SAMODIVA

O, wanderer in violet light!

On living lips the storm ignites

and fast preempts the true attempt

where darkest wings long took to flight.

'Ere edge of dawn limns tangled branch

there ramifies a flame unstanched

and fever weeps 'cross those asleep

who when they wake are quick to blanch.

She--wicked ornithologist--

jet crest protrudes in leaden mist,

and arcane lore the lost abhor

for gruesome ends await the kissed.

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An Eye, a Rewind, Next a Word

AN EYE, A REWIND, NEXT A WORD

an eye, a rewind, next a word

we die, don’t mind, it’s all absurd

what one and some can do for us

we shake our souls superfluous

a dart of yellow, here’s hello

from someone strange we fail to know

a turning up of what’s turned down

from some place left a ghostly town

a line so fine as turpentine

from something lost in curly twine

we sanguine sages wrestle thoughts

while gods of mischief twist the knots

we die, don’t mind, it’s all absurd

an eye, a rewind, next a word

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