THROUGH WALLS
Stomach: lonely.
Curled up in the
familiar ring
she went to sleep.
What a world, little churl!
Raw grass blades and
these spear-headed weeds,
dishevelled.
Sun glancing.
Heat
did not
come home
to whom?
As if porous. . .
Passing through
*
Hungry for a garden's
whispered care.
Those blues and pinks.
Who has
saved some for you
may part
the afternoon from an evening
looked to, and
looking back
or down on our
walled-off suspense.
"There's more," we are
to understand.
Excreting one more
link, and putting
a leaf back
on either side, a fin, a stroke, this
slow progress.
*
The awful thing
if every spurt
left him--
Anonymous Phrase--
in here and there it
surfaces
under the hidden eyes of
Brer Fox and Brer Bear.
"Nana, na, nana."
*
Ready tongue.
Coming back at
her sister, then
willing
to address the world's
intelligent and
uninhabited designs.
Most at home when
well-known
words come through
the metal
wires, the unseen
"transformers"
saying
". . . reminds me of my home
far away."