Tiger Swallowtail
found in all eastern forests
favorites include willows and cottonwoods not
the hot black pavement
where broken winged it hops flutters
and I here have a kettledrum stomach
I am round around my navel
driving along I've forgotten which errand now
Sometimes my beauty pushes out of my belly
Sometimes I hear it first crying near me
and then it suckles
Tathagata will be my next child
Even in this bearing
I remember always the thin-ness against the blackness and hotness
I remember the fluttering yellowness
Fons et Origo
I am Brigit and I will deliver
this
forever spinning
even without all of you.
Bulbpulse
Coming back from digging up bulbs
the sun was not risen
i was first there
dug up hundreds of them for replanting
and a flood of loved ones who could use these bulbs
came to me
their faces with their needs
of course you will say when i come home
these are not money
this will not save our family home
i understand
i will burst into tears
i will say "all these beautiful flowers will open"
which will frustrate you
and i will say
"if you could feel my pulse under the frozen ground
they would get planted".
Flamingo
You are trying
with a clean mind
uncluttered always always
to move through this swirl
to a point of color suddenly
bright cursor on a black screen
live life with what is mechanically pointed
that is
does it work like a sharpened moral
this takes incredible push
what of gentleness what of peace
there is god to be beaten back
I mean lets not wrestle with it
sweaty
shake hands at the end of this match
let's beat it bloody with its own bully stick
You are trying with very short flashes
of the clean and uncluttered
to beat to death
this method
an idea
wherein
a flamingo chick
born on a cone of mud
must walk
across miles of desert without water without flight
just to begin life
or
be born too late in the breeding season
and have the steaming mother waters
recede slowly
encrusting these baby ankles
with salt shackles
killing the chick this slow wicked way
this is the eternal it says
accept me
accept me you have no choice
no you say
no
and drive nails through the end of your club.