Poetry

My father would always tell me,
“When the winds are high,
the gales busting down windows,
when the heavens open, fire
pours down and people swear
it’s the end of the world,

Deborah says, swimming in a lake is so beautiful.
I say, it’s the antithesis of a swimming pool.
Which leads me to ask, what’s the antithesis
of a swimming pool? Is it a woman’s womb, life

One man blows out a candle when another man lights it. The man trying to light the candle runs faster and faster away from the man blowing it out, until he cannot light a match.
Several men, wearing padded outfits and blindfolds, walk around the stage swinging large swords that cut though various obstacles that fall and trip them.

Paper is a Time Machine, but it only goes backward in time.
Don’t ask where it begins, I don’t know where to begin,
but I know when you read you’re transported back in time.
I’m certain of that, but not much else. Is it part of the pencil

Santa Claus of the garden,
you bring snap of winter
to the mouth, crisp frosty heat.
Some call you icicle, watermelon,
breakfast, French, pink, orange, purple
(dirt had a real grip on that one.)

Music: up and down
Art: line and colour
Poetry: more or less
Philosophy: existential or ideal
Mathematics: point or plane

Gods are murdered in ritual,
with family in attendance.
If not as executioners, then moral support.
The god must be torn apart
thrown into all that is and is not.
Sister brides always grieve
journey to join the god together,
as he has always been put back together.

worst is best
because best
never is worst

Call for Mom.
She’s needed on deck;
no one else will do.
Who could possibly replace her?
Santa Claus or God?

Paleocene had a light tawny appearance and a semi sweet palate.
Eocene was the name of donkey in a play by Sophocles that became an eponym for stink.