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holly day celebration

 

HOLLY DAY CELEBRATION©

 

 

 

 

CENTURY 21

 

the hinge of reason

blooms in arid deserts

gathering no rust

rotund silence greets colandered rain

a lichened post emits beacons

 

our city mother and fathers begat stadium dreams

or perhaps brokered them

trying to hide a distended budget

spaghetti is a miracle

surviving traffic, also

for grander vistas begin with Ansel Adams

or perhaps Samuel Adams, depending

froth is bubbles

 

limp yellowed grass, once blonde in heat, talks among neighbors 

bringing rumors

washer woman at the back door with persimmons

indefinable orange, a halt of nasal traffic

samurai

 

unspeakable slithy woe

translucent mucus forms a graceful web

breathing

found objects include a bright shiny screw on the road

with an Allen head

 

birds come to visit

squirrels drop by for a chat

when reason is unhinged

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NO QUARTER

 

 

the castle of hungry ghosts

on a hilltop, ramparts and weapons, heralds and trumpets

became transparent

the exodus was silent, almost unnoticed

the memory a reconstructed missing persons report

found accidentally in soapy dishwater

surprising how, oh, that's how it was, aha!

suddenly clarifies

maybe nothing but a passing fly

without which California poppies are more riotous

and no one can hide from oneself forever

despite accumulations, acquaintances, parents, siblings, spouses and trusts

all the accoutrements of a sandstorm

neighbors to comment on the Weber BBQ

a day at work under squinty eyes

gone to confabulate with an automatic gate in the parking garage

to laugh

 

 

 

 

BEFORE LANDS GOT HOLY

 

 

MY FAMILY TREE LIVES IN A FINGERNAIL

now and then it gets clipped

just a practical consideration

 

driving to work for instance

is pruning dangers that whiz by unattended

leaving room for a reward of lucid moments

a Christmas tree lot, bright flapping circus pennants, parents and excited children, grey skies, darkening clouds, pine scent

a movable feast

 

from first fire to favorite restaurant

temporal minds cherish locality

 

then it moves to another city

going there does not ease the pain

not even pine scent

bedrock reality has fractured just enough

 

volcanoes, earthquakes, asteroids, musicians

generals with nuclear weapons

possibly overlaid with the next pandemic

Wall Street speculators, legal thieves, shadowy rulers concealed in the last disappearing paradise

fleas

the butterfly effect

 

these words did not appear overnight

 

there is no novel broad enough to imagine it

the terrain has disappeared

no plot

land, structures, flags or creed

all must be abandoned with courage facing death

oh my god!

yet not even that

 

no disrespect

when all is forgotten

tabla rasa reigns

the smell of rain persists

even the flocking of trees

and still nothing holy

 

 

 

PREMONITIONS

 

 

after all is said and forgotten

and lilacs bloom

if only in memory

absurdity is a bookmark

filigreed with buzzing bees

 

ah let's remember now, those golden days

built upon hopes of this future which

in every way

exceeds expectations

 

it is ordinary

like a neglected girlfriend who anyhow

won't go away

 

just raking leaves is enough

or washing dishes

quietly

 

how, without great fanfares, could just this

be enough

 

such questions are after the fact

pigs at the county fair

observations from an apartment on the twenty fifth floor

at night

with a glass of wine and a cityscape of twinkling lights

 

some leaves after drenching rain

will not yield to the rake

only waiting will do

some pigs do not want to be executed

 

a filigree of buzzing bees

absurdity, the great harbinger

yields to no one

 

 

 

THE HILL

 

 

just on the edge of it

in the midst of modernity

lives a word that cannot be spoken

in a forest clearing, blue sky, pin point forget-me-nots

a spatula holds court

berating Budweiser frogs, talking ducks, dancing cars

 

hello world, Mars, Jupiter, vector quantization

the singularity is near

earthquakes happen, yes, but we do have nuclear power

oh, yes, Fukishima

well

 

Persian rugs are not on the agenda

abstract outlines of a deep blue barn formed in a painter's lull

magnify the sun

 

a Polish hot dog at the Art & Wine Festival

 shines through handcrafted jewelry

lapis lazuli

god's eyes on crossed sticks

roasted corn

 

walking through shadowed cameras

Geico sprites hand out diplomatic wavers

grease spurts from my Polish hot dog

the Persian rug in my office reverberates with joy

though I'm not there to sing with it

where it came from is before peacocks, mandalas, frogs

 

thoughts

decline to nest in a pawn brokers golden globes

autumn leaves are sunset bird songs

evening breeze, a taste of mint

the mirage consumes itself.

 

 

 

 

HOLLY HO

 

 

automobile plantations and cities that never stop

karma tracing points of light

market figurines appear

clanging bells

 

sleep is preferable

natural rhythm

though not as cost effective as kamikaze profits

 

on a carbon based afternoon

King Tide cities suffer plunder

polar air bursts thermometric records

citizens practice normality by TVcide

Yuletide

Worhol's vindication

talking heads wrapped in  cinnamon balls

 tree ornaments

the ice caps are falling off anyway

 

 

raking leaves is necessary on the day before

the end of the world

rolling dice on the next heartbeat

were it sanctioned

leaving them

 would be unscrewing the world's navel

 

in fact such ruminations are too much

really what matters is getting every last leaf

ahead of torrential rains

which the heads have forecast calmly, cheerfully

clanging bells

cinnamon balls

deck the halls

kamikaze

 

 

 

 

 

spontaneous as an Art & Wine Festival

a Polish hot dog squirting grease

blue abstract barns

simmering lapis lazuli

 

figurines gesticulate wildly as the rake handle dips and curves

tracing a ballet of fallen shares

important ants have withdrawn to closed door caucus chambers

bare naked calculations

glistening rain a shimmer of solar radiations

my neighbor's frogs

difficult to estimate

not loud enough when expected

and nasturtiums are so intense

avatars

footsteps

never leaving the earth

as leaves scatter carelessly

on their own

 

 

 

INSIDE

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

 

 

WORDS ARE HUMMINGBIRDS

pollinators mind to mind

gathering nectar

sending hallucinatory flashes of prismal light

seen for an instant

they reverberate

then gone

 

come back, resplendent light!

but the show is over

when they have flown and a hunger remains

comes the question, how to fly

 

fly where?

the hunger is within

 

it is a do-it-yourself project

nothing to buy

all tools provided

and no assembly required

 

quietly, completely

it lands on its own

wings folded

waiting to be discovered

 



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