RED BERRIES LIKE GLACÉ CHERRIES

& the 

great dark 

brooding bruise

of overcast sky

made the 

rain slick

tree trunks 

chocolate

& the lawn 

a garish 

green limeade

red berries like glacé cherries

rudely trumped the fir trees reach

FROM A CEMETERY BENCH

in the earth

this marsh-close clay

the dead lay

some not even bones now

tucked away

&

love broken

headstones have little to say

but

the fallen berries
tucked 
in
lacquered crevices

make a playful squirrels day


~

it comes back to this -

scratch
the blank
wide open

&
be as water
with the ink

bent & coping on the cemetery bench

every 
laughing
groundhog day

from smithsonianmag.com

DAWN QUESTIONS

dawns 
groundhog day 
ground zero
ambiguously greets

the red berry bush
its xmas cherries
its blips of sin 

in baby blues 
in fat dove greys
& 
striped 
jailbar 
black

antimatter bars band 
the cracked cement

~

it
asks
me
one thousand
offensive
questions

like a charity mugger
crazy on good intentions
& good methedrine

i tick NA
&
return to sender

in big red
crayon blood

~

well dawn
you knackered my mind
with your 
relentless
regular
routine

its a knackered 
steel wool ball now
all crammed & gummed

& 
it 
feels 
like magrittes apple
when 
the 
dolls come home

from musicdirect.com

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