Cleansing silence is the tiptoeof a fairy as she slylybirths comfortyouthful dreamerwriting love notes to pixiesin beams the moon can sparesolace wrappedin prayer under coversphantom of shame circlesdisgrace like fireflieswithout flamesladybugs missing spotsand archaic tainted statueswith long-ago muted tongueswhile willows lamentso, plug your earsif puffed up, with mossfrom primal oaks if truth offendsboulders of disgrace…
Category: Anniversary
WRAP ME UP
emerald eyes inspecting every inch of mesmall is the pebble of stone, a recollection of my youthtrees collect me, wrapping me in their leaves like an ornament sensing I am the gift imparting upon you, like a swan’s neck unfolding hungering for touches that arouse memelting like the butter I use for a symbolic cakein…
Ameri-Ku: “After All These Years”
An Ameri-Ku by Joni Oh my mesmerizing love, you awaken my deep desirewith your hot hand on my bare shoulder, intoxicating smells tantalizing taste buds, our fine winewhetting our appetite for one another, toasting our love, art hanging, and baskets of light,dancing notes by Auclair-Fortin playing, my heart now swaystwenty-five years passing like a few…