sleek silken tethers
anticipating berries
vineyards are furrowed

Burst (Spring et al)

emancipation
your liquid prosperity
intoxication

Love Songs

blackened the swan
I blackened the swan
I blackened the swan
my swan
is gone.

murdered the fawn
I murdered the fawn
I murdered the fawn
'twas wrong
so wrong.

a queen with a pawn
a king eats the spawn
a knight dies at dawn
love songs
love songs.

windmill tethered
brooding as the south wind howls
abandoned farm

barn roof weathered
concessions to driving rain
spoiled hay and straw

pigeon feathers
outpost's final occupants
winter a month too long

Ishmael's final waves
in fleeting hurricane's eye
pirates died today

snow snakes in April
chase peepers' slush puddle songs
birth of northern Spring


distance in nearness
an invisible captor
moth in a jam jar

Pink on Frenchmen Street