Agoraphobe

Forty seconds since the start

Flush warm against the notepad

I'm plopped around the table

The chairs groan and squeak

The conferencer crackles with 

Disembodied punchy muffles

Beating the fluorescent drone

The faux marble is so cool and

Has wooden legs

Twitchy lids flutter above the hurricane

And I direly need to run

I'll Eat My Words

Fruits, veggies and meat -
All equally delicious
On a three day fast.

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Slower please
Now I've seen
Thrice three thrice

Tease the flow
Keen-eyed cow
Rightly tight

Older cheese
Vow I'll be
Snipe me ripe

Edges

We have learned to love

The edges of things-

Beginnings and ends,

Mirages,

Spooky apparitions at a distance,

That closer inspection

Dispels-

And forget how everything is contiguous soup

Which drowns all meaning.

Human ingenuity is this:

Draw a line to make one two;

Create a cage, invent a freedom;
Carve me, out of us.

Arboretum

An  arboreal  calm 

Has  descended  upon  my  daze 

So that,  now,  when  I  sway,  I  do  it  in  place, 

And  when  I  heave,  I  creak  in  a  deep  staccato, 

And  when  I  shed,  I  can  read  limerence 

into                                   the 

s c a t t e r 

And I

Can see

The future

Yellowing

All around me,

As I feed myself

On myself - growing more rings and

More wind-blown fruit, scrunching up the black earth

By the foot-ful and reaching up with splayed fingers for a shedding sky,

Just to taste your breath travelled from a mere branch-and-a-half away to me.

Dam building

Some have built dams to hold back and grow
Usefully the indefatigable flow, but,
Frankly, I don't have one-
And so I pray for softer rain
Until my bones and stones are set.

To Leave

Candy-green leaves coming into their own,
Verdant shades opening in the light,
Chancing these times sought and slandered,
Remind me always of friends as we are, reaching up
And out, still joined and drinking the same sweet sap.
The whole world flows in their veins as they
Lilt and grow together.