Thursday, September 20, 2018

Still No Laudanum

No Laudanum
Only cats
And purrs, a furry toy chase
And breath, a bare bodkin
Whose wand a silver wocket
and stride a steel stratagem

now

The parameters must be adjusted
to accommodate the inevitability of puppies
and chewing, crocodile-mouthed
foraging for fallen Doritos

When a kind heart 
encompasses so many volumes
it never fills to capacity
its zoo a forever monument
its mineral gods grounded
only augment
improve its multitudes
its glory unfaded by tears and lightning

Thirty turns
It isn't much
I've known screws more stubborn
Barely enough time to move a sun in space