Perigee Moon

“Moon Dreams” by Jonn Einerssen

 

draw the silk of the night

through the window

slip it under the sash

pull it snug into swaddling

for each newborn dream

thank the perigee moon

for fertility proudly instilled

in the womb of the mind

for the gift of its gleaming

irradiant source

for a soft incubation

subconscious creations

recombinant thoughts

who live unexplained lives

in their pieces and wholes

who will grow to maturity

reaching a kind of old age

with a shadowy wisdom

available briefly to grasp

with the fingers of sleep

before fleeing like smoke

called to home in the ether

the magical hour of

psychosomatic

entreaty by time

in obeisant turn to a

regnant new dawn

Europa

Jovian Moon Europa

 

smooth youthful skin

Galileo and Voyager

probe with their lustful

low candlewatt eyes

her iced over modesty

begs speculation a

question of pregnancy

conjugal elements

secrets submerged

within solar warmed

fluids of amnion

Jupiter virile and proud

standing by reaches out

with a cosmic embrace

patient pensive uncertain

as putative fathers

have ever so been

 

 

From my book Ephemera

Evaporation

“Evaporation 41” by Stephanie Menard

odd times are upon me
when the air wants me
more than I still want myself
it draws out my liquids
the essence that moistens
makes supple my surface
this skin I have worn for so long
dried out clutches of atoms
are lifted away caught
like smoke in a vortex
organic invisible uprise
disrobing me taking my
skin-felt touch memories
feelings familiar estranged
given up one by one
to a volume of vapor
that age and fatigue
have resigned to empower
accruing a transfer of will
as I dissipate ever so slowly
identity forfeited unto
transformative winds
where the bits and the pieces
of what had been me
find free-radical futures
transported by conjugal skies
forming bonds with the residues
shed by old souls whom
I never had met in whole flesh
but will nonetheless join
mingling molecules
bellying clouds till the weight
of us grows to the birthing point
heavy release in the form
of fresh torrents of rain
falling falling fat globules
that diminish reform and refine
with each league of descent
till we light oh so gently
distilled cleansed and pure
to repopulate earth

 

 

From my book Ephemera

Conception

Embryological Study by Leonardo da Vinci

courage is fathered

in a rank wretched bed

where masculine fear

lies down with his gorgon

in a choking embrace

expelling her peril

till foul becomes fair

and soiled linen creases

unfold in bright riots

of fortified flowers

that girdle the breast

with petals of armor

and freshen the beard

with fragrance of dignity

cleansing the air

for the first natal breath

of the manchild valor

now growing proud wings

in the belly where fear

hid his auspicious seed

 

 

(originally posted April 2013)

Birth

 

“Cherry Blossom Buds” – Photo from pinterest.com

 

 

tender budding shoots

imminent children of spring

nascent and crowning

 

 

(originally posted April 2013)

 

Lifecycle

 

“Abstract Evolution Series 1018” by Dina Sierra

 

 

we were born in damp caves
or perhaps came from
under the sea
before planets had names
or a language for teaching us
how to adore them
our tadpole tails twitched
with momentous intense
metamorphosis
standing us bipedal upright
enabling the reach of our
eyes and our ears to the stars
seeking company somewhere
more noble than we
finding only the echoes
of our own beginnings
as ungrateful stewards in heir
to our own earthen womb
left to struggle with finding
the right way to love her

 

 

(originally posted December 2013)

Intimations of Mortality

“Birth and Death” by Lidija Ivanek

(An homage to Wordsworth)

 

the newborn child

arrives in an exhale of breath

preexistent with memory

tactile and voicelessly vivid

awareness firsthand of a heaven

conformed to a perfect new soul

an emergent philosopher

touched by the intimate truths

harshly thrust among perils

of this imperfect world

oh the irony watching as time

and the nature of life

deconstructs the perfection

contaminates purity

forcing the babe to grow up

and grow through mortal suffering

dimmed of the knowledge

so bright at the time of nativity

feeling all the magic slip away

until reaching a mental maturity

learning if lucky all over again

what had once been so real

but can now be no more than

experience had by the intellect

Chrysalis

 

“Textura Chrysalis” by Bruce Marion

 

 

a promise, like a poem
is an unborn deed
conceived through
the conjugal union
of words with intent
placentally nourished
by juices of truth
developed by forces
of resolute honor
the promise innately
full bent to become
the poem possessed
of a need to arouse

will yours burst from
its syntax shell
whole and innerved
to deliver its life
on an expectant world
or will it decease
curl and wither within
its unfortunate husk

in the end
it comes down to
the skill of your will

 

 

From my books Range of Motion and Legacies (vol. 1)

 

Comparative Passing

“Placid Death”
Photo by Stephen Kurczy
From constructionlitmag.com

I recall dying
not nearly so painful
as was being born

I recall dying
not nearly so frightful
as was faith denied

I recall dying
not nearly so lonely
as was love withheld

I recall dying
not nearly so difficult
as was the living

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
– Mark Twain

Glass Eggs

Glass Egg Paperweights
Found on pinterest.com

seminal creations
of crystalline thought
cannot bear overhandling
mental fingerprints
smudging their clarity
causing confusion
the products of intellect
lost of apparent
distinction from impulse
from offhand emotion

thin blown neural glass
holds each delicate
eggshelled idea
in position of peril
so easily subject to crack
prematurely by
slightest of pressure
from artless impatience
too quick with
cerebral contractions

the uterine mind
is ideally prolific
when newly formed
concepts are given at
least a few moments
of natural gestation
before being pushed
into harsh public light
through the cervix
of audible speech