“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Showing posts with label downstairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downstairs. Show all posts
Saturday, May 21, 2016
The Art of Being Neighbors
My neighbor from upstairs
stepped out onto his balcony
at six-fifteen on Wednesday
evening
looking
like he never got up
for Wednesday-he was
up-stairs, as I said
while I, in the garden
down bellow dirt level
watering and weeding
while he, squints
in critique at his canvas
tilting it and his head-
waved with two fingers
disheveled hair
and a puffy face
at me squatting
I may (as well) be making
mud-pies-
I told him
Happy (late) Birthday!
he shrugged it off and
stammered about-
surprises, bottles and friends,
his cheeks match my
roses.
May I see-asked I,
knowing he needed an eye.
He obliged-
and it was
*magnificent*
and so-the guilty party
was forgiven.
Image of painting By Carl Geist, 1906 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Downstairs Lairs
There are no basements in California
even so, the ground gasps and trembles
panting
in subversive growing pains, like mine
in a Rack
And I attest, above me, there's no rest
while downstairs I have dwelt
digging deeper,
while building up
Below deck, I amble
in underlying
immersion
Fathomless and zoetic
In my dungeon with my dragons
I learn to expire
and practice breathing fire
Stomping and romping around the moon,
only echoes left from the rite of passage
steps ghosts long to hear, in a heartbeat
Up there, herds and hoards stampeding
and suspend on high chords
holding up the roof by
ceiling the cracks
Beneath it all
buried in a netherworld
with the worms and bugs
the cold wet earth blankets
a dry eye in decay
Musty, misty, sodden and steamy
I will be the first to drown
when it all comes down
I reside below, with no where to grow
sown in subterranean.
Image By Vert (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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