Showing posts with label stones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stones. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

The page of gathering places



Chin jutted level with the horizon line,
arms clasped around thin elbows which palms
cradle against the abdomen, the body becomes
a sensual veil, loosens its threads, the carpet of moss
appreciates the spaces across smooth rocks such as
She-

And I hear her voluptuous sigh
giving weight to attraction,
attention and focus upon
the tiniest moon
as though the stars were an entourage
of criticism-

She begins again, stainless in the mud,
I inquire as to what is bothering her,
what matters more than
rocks and trees-

She beheld a single sheet of white paper
which explained her glow,
scratch that she noted and tore
it into thin strips
but would not say another word edgewise.

I knew I would piece it all back together
when she smiled, opened her shoulders,
spread her wings and sang
like a mocking-bird.

There were too many notes, index cards
and pages coming back, 
returned to sender and un-
deliverable-

Yet we agreed
on something so stark
standing on different patches
of land and future, undoubtedly
paper was better than plastic.


Painting by Poul Friis Nybo (1869-1929), 'Reading Woman' c. 1929 in Public Domain. 

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Stone's throw


When the words dislodged
and came hailing down,
as an avalanche seeking the comforting
earth below
in free fall, the lege, a paragraph
or precipice gives itself away,

all the dense granite words,
could never be shale, not fall apart
nor could any illumination find light
after the full weight suddenly shifted,
to be mined. It was only words that the
mountains rose to meet at
The End.




Painting by Carl Schuch [Public domain], 'Mountain stream with boulders' (c.1888) via Wikimedia Commons.


Friday, March 17, 2017

Skipping sounds


Thrown stones at glass ponds
Reflecting cracks or ripples,
though heard, no echo…




Painting By Józef Chełmoński, Pond in Radziejowice, (1898) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Was Wishing & Wondering


Knowing you could lie
whenever
wherever you are
what would you say
which way
would you go
if I asked if you think
of me
ever
when away
which is always
when you know
I'm elsewhere too
I think of you
wondering, pondering,
thinking and sinking
stones in a well
sigh, oh well
I cannot tell
what it means on purpose
if I could taste
a stone from your land
would it taste like your cheek
on a warm-blooded day
since we share the sun
wherever
would you lie
with me?




Image By Agriculture And Stock Department, Publicity Branch [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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