STEPHEN MEAD

Tear in Hand

Tear in Hand

Make it a canoe, & you,
Tub safe with your best
Loved babe
Surrounded by tapers,
The flames of firework sparklers
Celebrating a huge haloed moon,
Its rays now a single pathway
Silver on still waves
Between a hundred other
Hammock-rocking boats…

Night, night & the sea,
The mild wind & scents of a willow
There where you float, a pre-raphaelite
Rose in your lover's arms, in that
Cocoon as tattoo on the water's flesh
Hardly rippled the way a tear

Is clear in the midst of lesions

copyright 2003 STEPHEN MEAD

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DONNA KUHN

melted

yr tophat skull or spider holograms 
snoozy had history written in henna 
polynesian because guilt is an eye patch 
third eye, flatten yr eyes 
twin saxophones laminate flowers 
amy has melted cuz she's an eagle 
or eternal regression mirror 
i will be dreaming god, what's her name 
third eye flatten twin saxophones 
i will be dreaming spider holograms 
she's an eagle regression mirror 
she is an eagle i will be dreaming 
amy has melted twin saxophones 
guilt is an eye patch written in henna 
yr eyes laminate flowers 
henna patch eyes: flowers, eagle, 
mirror dreaming saxophones. 

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